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Meeting Set Today On Munitions Search At Airport
PUBLIC BRIEFING WRAPS UP PROJECT ...more
June 25, 2008
River's Crest Will Test Weak Levee
The weakest spot left along the swollen Mississippi River may be the Pin Oak levee, a barrier so tenuous that soil slides down its slope. ...more
June 25, 2008
Residents Toil To Keep River At Bay
With a few days to go before the last stretch of the bloated Mississippi River reaches its crest, people toiled around the clock Monday to reinforce levees already strained and saturated from the pressure of the rising water. ...more
June 24, 2008
Flooding, Closed Locks Keep Freight Off The Mississippi
The flooding in the Midwest has brought freight traffic on the upper Mississippi to a standstill, stranding more than 100 barges loaded with grain, cement, scrap metal, fertilizer and other products while shippers wait for the water to drop. ...more
June 21, 2008
Florida Urges Feds To Back Off Atlanta Water Plan
Florida officials are threatening to sue the federal government unless the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reconsiders its plan to withhold more water from federal reservoirs and lakes in Georgia. ...more
June 21, 2008
Mississippi Threatens To Top Nearly 30 Levees
The federal government predicts that 27 levees could potentially overflow along the Mississippi River if the weather forecast is on the mark and a massive sandbagging effort fails to raise the level of the levees, according to a map obtained Monday by The Associated Press. ...more
June 17, 2008
As 1 City In Iowa Floods, Another May Be OK
Hospital patients in wheelchairs and on stretchers were evacuated in the middle of the night as the biggest flood Cedar Rapids has seen swamped more than 400 blocks Friday and all but cut off the supply of clean drinking water in the city of 120,000. ...more
June 14, 2008
Founder Of Major Engineering Firm, Post, Dies At Age 83
Howard "Budd" Post, founder of one of the state's leading engineering firms and the designer of Miami Lakes, died Tuesday. He was 83. ...more
June 12, 2008
McCain Ventures Into Everglades Ill-Prepared For Political Briars
Republican presidential candidate John McCain visited the Everglades last week to highlight his commitment to Florida's natural treasures and promptly stepped into political muck. ...more
June 10, 2008
Flooding Lays Waste To Midwest
An embankment along a man-made lake gave way under severe flooding Monday, unleashing a powerful current that pulled several homes off their foundations and down the Wisconsin River. ...more
June 10, 2008
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