Silt From McLean Co. Subdivision Linked to Possible Harm to Creek
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By Scott Richardson, The Pantagraph, Bloomington, Ill.  Feb. 25--BLOOMINGTON -- A Twin City developer is in hot water over dumping too much silt in a stream in southern McLean County.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Jun. 25--A Johnson County man will appear in federal court in Pikeville on Friday on charges that he dumped sewage into the Big Sandy River.   Dave L.
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By Vera Haffey, The Montana Standard, Butte  Sep. 6--PHILIPSBURG -- Talk of a dense subdivision at the Georgetown Lake  Lodge is causing concerns for some lake residents who think Granite County  should rein in its development practices.
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Jun. 5--Whether the issue is flooding, erosion or pollution, anyone with concerns about Saucon Creek can help identify priority problems by attending a meeting sponsored this week by the Saucon Creek Watershed Association.
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By Herald-Times, Bloomington, Ind.  Sep. 7--City officials said Wednesday that residents might notice their  water has taken on a yellow or brown hue.
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The presence of higher than normal manganese in treated water distributed to Bedford, Colleyville, Euless, Grapevine and North Richland Hills by the Trinity River Authority of Texas has caused a light yellow or brown color to be noticeable in some of the water being delivered.
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Jun. 5--After months of back-and-forth arguing about a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan to dump hundreds of tons of dirt into the Missouri River, the corps and state water regulators will meet later this month to try to dig up a compromise.
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By Jayne Matthews, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 6--TROY -- Contamination of Silver Creek and other waters in Illinois soon may bring down stricter inspections on above-ground septic tanks that spew cleansed water onto the ground.
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By Serdar Tumgoren, The Dispatch, Gilroy, Calif.  Dec. 14--GILROY -- Developers, landowners and South County officials have  convinced a regional land-use agency to delay a policy that could limit the  growth of Gilroy and Morgan Hill.
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By The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  May 24--Sarasota County's Environmentally Sensitive Lands Protection Program purchased a .22-acre creekside property.
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The Department of the Interior is about to approve a regulation that would allow and even encourage mountain top mining, which involves blasting off the top of a mountain and dumping the remains in nearby valleys and streams. Yes, that's as bad for the environment as it sounds.
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By Aliana Ramos, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, S.C.  Feb. 14--GEORGETOWN -- Control over water and sewer service in rural Georgetown County may be up for grabs.
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By EVADNA BARTLETT  Homeowners in an often-soaked Teays Valley subdivision worry that development of adjacent property will worsen their problems.   They laid out their concerns Tuesday before the Putnam County Commission.
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By JULIAN WALKER  A developer will be allowed to destroy some wetlands and streams in Chesterfield County to make way for a road extension to a planned mixed-use development.  The decision came yesterday from the State Water Control Board, which reversed a previous decision.
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By Bruce Henderson, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Jan. 31--The breakdown of a pump and an alarm system sent sewage into a Lake Wylie tributary, contaminating a cove near a residential area in southwestern Mecklenburg County.
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By Curtis Morgan and Amy Driscoll, The Miami Herald Jun. 16--A key component of the Biscayne Landing cleanup appears to have gone sour. That could cost developers and, ultimately, Miami-Dade taxpayers.
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By Jared Paben, The Bellingham Herald, Wash.  Jun. 2--There's not enough water on Squalicum Mountain to serve a substantial number of homes, and drilling more wells for new houses may rob existing houses of water, a Whatcom County geologist told county officials.