Big Dig leaks water and cash
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Massachusetts no longer has to worry about the Curse of the Bambino plaguing the Red Sox, but the Curse of the Big Dig, that never-ending Boston highway project, is still much alive.
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Just when you thought it was safe to drive through downtown Boston again comes word that the Interstate 93 tunnel leading under the city is full of leaks.
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Cleaning up about half of the 117,000 leaking underground fuel storage tanks nationwide will cost the public about $12 billion, Congress' investigative arm said in a report released on Thursday.
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How the Interior Department managed to lose about $2 billion of the public's money. Can this mess be cleaned up?
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By Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- It will cost at least $12 billion to clean up contamination from tens of thousands of gasoline storage tanks that are leaking underground, congressional auditors say.
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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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The independent agency charged with overseeing the &#36;14.6 billion highway project known as the Big Dig intends to sue the consortium that managed the venture, seeking to recover as much as &#36;100 million in costs for design errors and construction mistakes.
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In a burgeoning political and engineering scandal, Boston&#39;s gleaming new underground Interstate 93 highway is riddled with hundreds of leaks.
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By Rebecca Sulock, The Herald, Rock Hill, S.C.  Sep. 21--An emergency infusion of cash from York County -- and money likely to come from the state -- will start work again at Blackmon Road after stubborn rock boulders cost more money to blast through than initially expected.
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By Jennifer Maloney, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Sep. 13--The Suffolk Water Authority and opponents clashed yesterday in a hearing on the authority's application to drill into the Lloyd aquifer to help address contamination issues in Northport.
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Leaks in the Big Dig highway tunnel system are more widespread than officials have acknowledged, and top construction managers warned as far back as six years ago about problems that could cause waterproofing failures, records show.
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By Associated Press  LEHI -- An official is calling it a "water war." Two Utah County communities are claiming their supplies will be diminished if the state allows new wells to be drilled by Salt Lake County-based water agencies.
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By BARBARA WILLIAMS, STAFF WRITER  WEST MILFORD  The developer of a proposed 288-unit town-house project has asked to monitor 39 homeowners' wells to see if there is enough water for the development.  K.
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By Scott Streater, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Mar. 11--The first sign of impending disaster would be a piercing hiss as thousands of pounds of chlorine gas rushed through a hole in one of the 4,000-gallon storage tanks at the Tarrant County Water Supply Project plant in Euless.
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Commuters got their first glimpse Monday of what to expect for at least the next couple of months as investigators and construction crews work on identifying and repairing problems in the tunnels of the city&#039;s Big Dig highway system.
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Convenience store owners, state governments and environmental groups received something in President Bush's 2008 budget last week they have been lusting for: a little more cash to inspect leaking underground-storage tanks.
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By Sara Perkins, The Monitor, McAllen, Texas  Feb. 24--RIO GRANDE CITY -- Almost $3 million in grants and loans should  go a long way toward improving water service for 500 households north of the  city -- but not all the way.