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- Call for flood plain to be bought (BBC News)
Mar 22, 2010 - A flood plain saved from development after plans to build 7,500 homes were axed should be handed over to public ownership, campaigners say. - Public entity sought to tackle flood control in Hancock, Putnam counties (The Toledo Blade)
Mar 22, 2010 - By JENNIFER FEEHAN BLADE STAFF WRITER Companies that do business in Hancock and Putnam counties put their money where their mouths were when they said they wanted to do whatever it took to prevent another flood from shutting them down. In the months after the devastating August, 2007, Blanchard River flood, Marathon Oil, Whirlpool Corp., and other companies came together to help fund the ... - Govt urged to abandon Angat dam's privatization plan (GMA News)
Mar 22, 2010 - The Philippines’ was urged to abandon a plan to place Angat dam — Metro Manila’s primary water source — under private management. - Jurors to consider '04 dam failure (The Clarion-Ledger)
Mar 22, 2010 - Five years after an estimated 7.2 billion gallons of water swept through Lamar and Marion counties, a multimillion-dollar damage suit is going to court in Gulfport. - Trial over dam collapse starts Monday (FOX10 Mobile)
Mar 21, 2010 - Five years after an estimated 7.2 billion gallons of water swept through Lamar and Marion counties, a damage suit is going to court in Gulfport. - Trial over Lamar Co. dam collapse starts Monday (The Clarion-Ledger)
Mar 21, 2010 - The multimillion dollar civil suit filed over the damage caused by the 2004 collapse of the Big Bay Lake dam in Lamar County will open Monday in Harrison County Circuit Court in Gulfport. - NCAA: Tennessee on an 18-2 run vs. Ohio (AP via Yahoo! News)
Mar 20, 2010 - Tennessee is beginning to flex its muscle, embarking on an 18-2 run to take a 34-20 lead over Ohio. Even a timeout by coach John Groce did little to dam the momentum. The Vols are shooting better than 64 percent from the field. - Howard Hanson Dam: Peering into a leaky problem (Tacoma News Tribune)
Mar 20, 2010 - Warren Douglas placed a plastic cup under a pipe sticking out of the tunnel wall deep under the right abutment of troubled Howard Hanson Dam east of Auburn. • Corps has plan, needs money - Corps has plan, needs money for Howard Hanson Dam (Tacoma News Tribune)
Mar 19, 2010 - The Army Corps of Engineers has an interim plan to reinforce the Howard Hanson Dam with a 1,000-foot-long grout curtain as early as this year but needs $44 million to complete it. The curtain along the dam’s seeping right abutment is expected to restore the flood-control capacity of the dam, which was weakened during the January 2009 flooding. - QueQue update: that damn dam (San Antonio Current)
Mar 19, 2010 - The QueQue spoke with Public Works Director Majed Al-Ghafry yesterday, who says residents living near SARA dam 15R, located by McAllister Park, can sleep soundly.