Water Projects Bill Headed To House-Senate Negotiations - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After the Senate’s July 19 approval of an estimated $13-billion water resources bill, industry and environmental groups are starting to focus on negotiations to work out differences between that meas
Publication Date: 31 July , 2006
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Indian Dam Project Resumes After Court Ruling Ends Delay - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A fter a year-long construction delay was ended last spring by a ruling from India’s Supreme Court, work on the controversial project to raise the height of the Sardar Sarovar Dam on the Narmada Rive
Publication Date: 24 July , 2006
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New England Tries Desalination To Treat Brackish Water - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Desalination of seawater is becoming a viable option for parched western and southwestern states. But now one East Coast state is adopting the technology to create a new drinking water source. Massachusett
Publication Date: 24 July , 2006
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Katrina Tailwinds: Corps Restructures To Manage $5.7 Billion in Civil Works - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The US Army Corps of Engineers has established a Hurricane Protection Center in New Orleans in an effort to meet its 2010 deadline for completing an unprecedented $5.6 billion in civil works projects in Lo
Publication Date: 20 July , 2006
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Senate Passes Water Projects Bill, Adds New Reviews for Corps Projects - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Senate has approved a long-delayed bill that authorizes an estimated $13 billion for Corps of Engineers water projects, but, in a big win for environmental groups, lawmakers added a provision that woul
Publication Date: 20 July , 2006
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California To Study Hetch Hetchy Replacement - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Environmentalists since John Muir 100 years ago have lamented the inundation of the magnificent Hetch Hetchy Valley for San Francisco's water supply, and they have persistently lobbied to drain the system'
Publication Date: 17 July , 2006
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Corps Blames Designs, Modifications for Missed Deadlines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers missed a July 9 deadline to ready a temporary gate and bypass pump system on the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans because modifications to the contract to increase pumping
Publication Date: 17 July , 2006
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Corps Stabilizes Earthen Dam To Withstand Midwest Quake - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is undertaking what it calls the largest foundation-stabilization project ever on an operational dam.
Publication Date: 17 July , 2006
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Hetch Hetchy System Launches Upgrade - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
San Francisco’s largest capital project ever is shifting into high gear after three years of planning, permitting, design and initial construction work. Later this summer, the city’s Public Uti
Publication Date: 17 July , 2006
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Review Processes Mesh for I-5 Plans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Transportation officials want to widen and seismically improve 5 miles of the Interstate 5 Columbia River Crossing, an aging link between Portland, Ore., and Vancouver, Wash. To shorten the review phase an
Publication Date: 17 July , 2006
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Extreme Rains Test East Coast Systems - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Meteorologists say the torrential rains and severe, widespread flooding that ravaged the Northeast in the last week of June and left at least 15 dead in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and New York were t
Publication Date: 10 July , 2006
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North Slope Oil and Gas Spills Expose Aging Pipeline's Woes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
After two pipeline leaks last spring on BP's transit lines on Alaska's North Slope, the oil producer failed to meet a June 15 deadline for corrective action ordered by U.S. Dept. of Transportation.
Publication Date: 10 July , 2006
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Puerto Rico Utility Hammered With $10 Million in Fines - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In what the U.S. Justice Dept. calls a “landmark enforcement action,” the Puerto Rico Aqueduct and Sewer Authority has agreed to plead guilty to 15 felony counts of violating the Clean Water Ac
Publication Date: 10 July , 2006
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Bright Green Is Today's Hot Color - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The year 2006 marks the first year of the second decade of ENR’s annual Top 200 Environmental Firms list, and its results make clear that rumors of the environmental sector’s collapse are about
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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Engineers Move To Find Out Why a Lake Lost its Water - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Four sinkholes beneath a 285-acre lake in central Florida, and one in a nearby ridge, caused the lake to drain completely earlier this month, flooding two nearby homes and killing wildlife. An engineering
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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Managers Juggle, Workers Jostle To Raise Brooklyn Batteries - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Brooklyn’s gritty industrial waterfront is bristling with frenetic activity as engineers and workers jockey about a tight site upgrading New York City’s largest wastewater treatment plant. The
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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Water System Impaired By Sagging of Inflatable Wall- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The Sonoma County Water Agency in Santa Rosa, Calif., is asking its directors to approve emergency repairs to a 200-ft-long inflatable rubber dam on the Russian River. The 10-year-old dam, which is raised
Publication Date: 03 July , 2006
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Nitrogen System To Clear Seine, But More Will Be Required - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The risk of algal pollution of water in and beyond the River Seine will be substantially reduced starting next year when a new nitrate-removal system starts up in a Paris wastewater plant, one of Europe&rs
Publication Date: 26 June , 2006
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FEMA Money Flows Where Pressure Goes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Contractors are grumbling about using their credit, bonding and cash flow to finance the Gulf Coast region’s recovery while they wait for reimbursement from the Federal Emergency Management Agency. E
Publication Date: 19 June , 2006
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Supreme Court Decision Leaves Wetlands Jurisdiction Murky- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 19 June , 2006
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System Failure Gets Blame In New Orleans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Stronger. Weak I-walls flagged by study have been replaced by beefier structures. (Photo by Michael Goodman for ENR)
Publication Date: 12 June , 2006
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IPET: Corps at Fault - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Subsidence, weak links in the levee system and poor funding also played a role in disaster, study says. (Photo courtesy of FEMA)
Publication Date: 06 June , 2006
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No Flood of Work In New Orleans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
There really isn’t a giant sucking sound coming from the Gulf Coast region that represents workers pulled from the rest of the U.S. to shoulder the tremendous amount of debris removal and reconstruct
Publication Date: 06 June , 2006
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Florida Eyes Tougher Wind Code - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 05 June , 2006
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U.S., Alaska Seek $92 Million More for "Exxon Valdez" Oil Spill - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Federal and Alaska state officials said June 1 they are seeking an additional $92 million from ExxonMobil Corp. to continue restoring shores around Prince William Sound that were damaged in the 1989 "
Publication Date: 02 June , 2006
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Corps Falls Short on Levee Fix, Vows to "Do the Right Thing"- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Lt. Gen. Johnson says current effort is only the beginning.
Publication Date: 01 June , 2006
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Regulators Want Old Diesel Engines To Clean Up...Or Clear Out - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
On May 1, the thick morning fog began to lift off the San Fernando Valley, leaving a smoggy haze in its place. Two mechanics dressed in jeans and tee-shirts were preparing to drop a new 15-liter diesel eng
Publication Date: 29 May , 2006
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System Failure In New Orleans - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
An independent team of academics, scientists and engineers studying last fall’s flooding in New Orleans has released a draft report of its findings, concluding that decades of systemic pr
Publication Date: 29 May , 2006
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Controlled Blast Topples PGE's Trojan Tower - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
With a sequenced flash of explosives followed by a muffled thump, the Portland General Electric Trojan nuclear powerplant’s 499-ft-tall cooling tower collapsed upon itself in a cloud of dust early Ma
Publication Date: 23 May , 2006
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Assessment Proposal Filed For Bhopal Remediation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A U.S.-based brownfield development firm early this month submitted a proposal to assess remediation requirements and to plan the cleanup of the former Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India. Offic
Publication Date: 22 May , 2006
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Army Corps Will Miss Flood Protection Deadline - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
(Pump 1): Repair work at 17 St. (above) will not be sufficient to provide needed pumping capacity, Corps commander says. (Photo by courtesy USACE)
Publication Date: 16 May , 2006
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Supreme Court Upholds State Hydro Dam Regulation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In one of the key environmental cases of its current term, the U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously upheld states' authority to regulate hydroelectric dams under the Clean Water Act. In a 9-0 opinion issued
Publication Date: 15 May , 2006
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Florida Lake Report Stirs Old Fears - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
A new, independent assessment of the 143-mile-long dike surrounding Florida's Lake Okeechobee is raising alarm in the towns clustered around the brooding mass of water, in the governor's office and in the
Publication Date: 15 May , 2006
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State's Landfills Are Off-Limits For Construction and Demolition - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Massachusetts is about to become the first state in the nation to ban certain construction and demolition materials from landfills. The ban is designed to help preserve limited landfill capacity and increa
Publication Date: 15 May , 2006
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Bush Selects Alaskan to Head USGS - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
President Bush has nominated Mark Myers, former Alaska State Geologist, to be the director of the U.S. Geological Survey, the White House announced May 3.
Publication Date: 04 May , 2006
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Tough Jobs, Long Hours and Lonely Sites: Levee Reconstruction Grinds On - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In their efforts to bring the levees back to pre-Katrina standards by June 1, contractors fight the clock, labor and material shortages and rising costs, but most of all, the thing that wrecked them last h
Publication Date: 02 May , 2006
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title - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In their efforts to bring the levees back to pre-Katrina standards by June 1, contractors fight the clock, labor and material shortages and rising costs, but most of all, the thing that wrecked them last h
Publication Date: 02 May , 2006
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All-American Canal Lining Faces More Legal Challenge - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Opponents of an All-American Canal lining project near California’s border with Mexico filed suit in Imperial County Superior Court April 21 against Imperial Irrigation District (IID), alleging state
Publication Date: 01 May , 2006
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Katrina Analysis Has Designers Building Faster and Smarter - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 01 May , 2006
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Senate Panel Clears FHWA, EPA Nominees - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
President Bush's nominees to lead the Federal Highway Administration and fill two top Environmental Protection Agency positions have advanced in the Senate, but the path to confirmation isn't clear yet for
Publication Date: 27 April , 2006
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Utilities in Alabama and North Dakota Settle Clean Air Disputes - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Utilities in Alabama and North Dakota expect to spend at least $535 million under settlements resolving clean air disputes with the federal government
Publication Date: 26 April , 2006
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title - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Hurricane Katrina caused about $1.2 billion worth of damage plus $163 million in lost revenue to Gulf Coast wastewater treatment systems, according to a Water Environment Federation report.
Publication Date: 26 April , 2006
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California City Claims Largest Natural Treatment System - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Petaluma, Calif., is building a $110-million,8-million-gallon-per-day wastewater-treatment plant using engineered wetlands to conserve operating costs and the environment. When operational in 2009, the pre
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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Hanford Vitrification Project Generates Heat Over Costs - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Bechtel Corp. and the Dept. of Energy were called to task April 6 by the House Appropriations subcommittee on energy and water development for cost and schedule overruns at the multi-billion dollar waste v
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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New Orleans Flood Base Elevation To Count on Levees Again - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
On April 12, the Federal Emergency Management Agency dropped a long-awaited shoe, declaring that base flood elevations in New Orleans will stay at levels established in 1984 and will not be raised because
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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Sureties Wouldn't Support Bidding - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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Water Issues To Be Studied from Space - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
The European Space Agency, a group funded by 15 European countries to promote space exploration and research, has commissioned a $300,000 project using satellite imagery to assess the responses of bays in
Publication Date: 24 April , 2006
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Raising Levees Is Even More Costly - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
As always, the devil is in the details, but this time the devil is a real monster. The cost estimate for restoring New Orleans’ hurricane defenses has tripled, jumping to $9.5 billion from the $3.5 b
Publication Date: 20 April , 2006
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California Fights Hard Against Rising Tide- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
If record-breaking rainfall continues, California’s San Joaquin Valley may be plagued with flooding and levee breaches rivaling those in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, say officia
Publication Date: 17 April , 2006
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Officials Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 17 April , 2006
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Two Desalination Plants Could Cost $540 Million- McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Publication Date: 17 April , 2006
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No More Delay in Railyard, Montana Governor Orders - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
There’s a new sheriff in town and he’s done parleying. Barely a year after taking office, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D) ordered the state Dept. of Environmental Quality to clean up a contam
Publication Date: 10 April , 2006
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Katrina's Wake: Couple Watches The End of the Home They Built - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Joyce and Pat Blaize lived in Plaquemines Parish for 54 years. (By Angelle Bergeron)
Publication Date: 05 April , 2006
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Safety Questions Now Dog New Orleans' Levee Design - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Flaws in the design of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans, including inadequate safety margins, could exist in every other other section of the city’s flood control system, a panel of engineers war
Publication Date: 03 April , 2006
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San Diego-based Contractor's Bid Apparent All-American Canal Winner - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Award is expected by the end of May of a contract for two reaches of the All-American Canal near California's border with Mexico following a March 22 bid opening by Imperial Irrigation District (IID). San
Publication Date: 31 March , 2006
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Job Would Gag a Maggot, But Not These Guys - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
(Editor’s note: A truncated account of New Orleans-based reporter Angelle Bergeron’s white goods cleanup story appeared last month. This is the more complete Web-only version.)
Publication Date: 30 March , 2006
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EPA, Corps Propose Changes in Wetlands Replacement Rules - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Proposal promotes expanded use of mitigation banking. (Photo courtesy of EPA)
Publication Date: 28 March , 2006
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Federal Court Strikes Down EPA 'New Source' Regulation - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
In a decision deemed “overkill” by electric utilities, a federal appellate court has vacated a 2003 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule that lets utilities overhaul aging coal-fired power
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Flood Threat Detailed As Funding Initiatives Fail - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Authorities in California are scrambling to find alternative funding sources for urgently needed levee improvements north of Sacramento following the failure of federal and state initiatives to fund the wo
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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Floodwall Design Left Scant Safety Margin - McGraw-Hill Construction | ENR
Flaws in the design of the 17th Street Canal in New Orleans, including inadequate safety margins, could exist in other sections of the city’s flood control system, a panel of engineers warned the U.S
Publication Date: 27 March , 2006
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