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A Kenosha developer intends to restore more than 400 acres of wetland habitat within a 625-acre parcel in the village's Barnes Creek area beginning next year. Bear Development has filed plans with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the project that aims to enhance existing wetlands while restoring to wetlands other areas previously used for farming.
This workshop is a collaborative effort by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , the Nevada Division of Water Resources , and several other organizations working together under the Nevada Silver Jackets program. The workshop will provide an overview of issues of concern associated with alluvial fan flooding in Nevada, including the structural and geological hazards associated with alluvial fans, local issues with alluvial fan development and flash flooding, nonstructural flood-proofing techniques to reduce the consequences of flooding, and planning for developed and undeveloped alluvial fans.
An environmental group is suing to block the dredging of an important shipping channel in the St. Johns River in Jacksonville. The Florida Times-Union reports that the St. Johns Riverkeeper group filed suit on Friday, saying the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers did not adequately factor in the environmental damage of the project.
In this Feb. 13, 2017, aerial file photo shows the site where the final phase of the Dakota Access Pipeline will take place with boring equipment routing the pipeline underground and across Lake Oahe to connect with the existing pipeline in Emmons County near Cannon Ball, N.D. American Indians from across the country are bringing their frustrations ... (more)
Wahkiakum County officials continue to wrestle with an effort to implement a program of beach nourishment on eroding shorelines, and they face permitting and timing challenges on a culvert replacement project on the Elochoman Valley Road. On Tuesday, Commissioner Dan Cothren said Deena Horton, a regional staff representative of US Senator Maria Cantwell, had spoken with US Army Corps of Engineers personnel on the county's behalf in an effort to expedite the Corps' review of amended right-of-entry permit language.
As Wednesday's deadline set by the governor to evacuate the Standing Rock camp site looms, a number of Dakota Access Pipeline protesters have vowed to stay put. Last week, Gov. Doug Burgum signed an emergency evacuation order of the property to allow private contractors to remove waste from the Oceti Sakowin camp area, which officials say is in floodplain.
The Prado Dam, as seen Monday February 13, 2017, was constructed in the late 1930's into the 40's and sits just northeast of the intersection of the 71 and 91 freeways in Riverside County. While massive, damaged Oroville Dam threatens to disgorge floodwaters, you've got to ask yourself: Do Southern California dams pose a significant threat to people living below them? You can exhale now, the region's water operators said Monday.
While the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued Clean Water Act streamlined nationwide wetland permits as a final rule on Jan. 6, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus on Jan. 20 issued a memo directing federal agencies to withdraw or postpone recently finalized regulations for at least 60 days. If the NWPs were to get caught up in the web of this regulatory freeze, builders and developers face the potential burden of costly and time-consuming "individual" wetland permits for even the smallest of impacts to wetlands, ponds and streams.
STUDYa SUNDERa SWAY - This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the oil pipeline, asked a federal judge on Jan. 17, to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full ... (more)
This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the oil pipeline, asked a a federal judge on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion pipeline's disputed crossing of a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.
This Sept. 29, 2016 file photo, shows a section of the Dakota Access Pipeline under construction near the town of St. Anthony in Morton County, N.D. Texas-based Energy Transfer Partners, the company building the oil pipeline, asked a a federal judge on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, to block the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from launching a full environmental study of the $3.8 billion pipeline's disputed crossing of a Missouri River reservoir in North Dakota.
A historic wharf in Connecticut that was used as a gangway for wagons to unload 19th-century schooners is moving closer toward having a new, more modern purpose. The U.S. Senate on Friday was expected to consider legislation that transfers control of the massive stone wharf from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the town of Stonington.
Dec 5 The U.S. Army's denial of an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline, after permitting and legal obligations were followed, sets an uncertain precedent for new projects despite President-elect Donald Trump's promise to support energy infrastructure. The decision came after months of protests by the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and others who said the line could desecrate tribal grounds, or a spill could contaminate drinking water.
Massachusetts residents who have supported protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline expressed relief on Sunday that the project has been blocked, but they cautioned that its final resolution remains uncertain. "I'm extremely happy and extremely hopeful," Lynn Currier, a Native American activist who lives in Randolph, said after the US Army Corps of Engineers announced that it wouldn't grant an easement for the oil pipeline to pass underneath Lake Oahe in southern North Dakota.
Activists celebrate the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the current route for the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota. Activists celebrate the decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to block the current route for the Dakota Access pipeline in North Dakota.
Benji Buffalo, a Grovan Native American from Montana, shovels snow outside his tent at the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016. CANNON BALL, N.D. - An easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in southern North Dakota will not be granted, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Sunday.
A Native American drum procession moves through the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't grant easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016. less A Native American drum procession moves through the Oceti Sakowin camp after it was announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't grant easement for the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., ... more Law enforcement vehicles line a road leading to a blocked bridge next to the Oceti Sakowin camp where people have gathered to protest the Dakota Access oil pipeline in Cannon Ball, N.D., Saturday, Dec. 3, 2016.
In a decision celebrated by protestors at the Standing Rock site, the Army announced they would not grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline. In a decision celebrated by the thousands of protestors gathered at the Standing Rock site, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Sunday that they would not grant an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline and would instead "explore alternate routes."
This shoreline community has tried everything it can think of to prevent protective sand dunes from being built along the beach, invoking lost views, wrongly seized property rights and damaged tourism prospects. Now that those big-picture issues have failed to kill the project, Margate is using a mosquito to make a questionable claim: that the dunes will help spread the Zika virus.
A sculpture stands at an encampment where protesters of the Dakota Access oil pipeline have been gathered for months, Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016, near Cannon Ball, N.D. Protest organizers said that they have a right to stay on the land. Their statement comes a day after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers told they would have to leave by Dec. 5. BISMARCK, N.D. - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has set an early December deadline for American Indians and others to leave an encampment in North Dakota where they've been entrenched for months protesting the Dakota Access pipeline.