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Long list of ideas to rescue the Sound
OLYMPIA -- Buy environmentally sensitive lands. Redouble enforcement of laws to protect fish. Give builders incentives to prevent water pollution. Forbid erosion controls on ecologically sensitive shorelines.
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Flood money
The provincial government is supporting local efforts to repair dams and floodway channels through a $201,500 investment in the Water and Erosion Control Infrastructure Program of the Quinte Conservation Authority.
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Lummi Island shoreline case faces appeal
An attorney for a property rights group says he plans to appeal a court ruling that blocks a Lummi Island woman from constructing a bulkhead to protect her property from erosion.
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Greens want 15pc of NZ farms organic by 2015
State-owned farmer Landcorp should be used to model sustainable farming techniques such as organic production, retiring riparian areas and areas of high erosion, conserving biodiversity, and reducing synthetic fertiliser use, she said.
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Waterfront watch | Public opinion weighed in protecting the beach
So how should those concerned for the coastline's well-being handle the ever-changing beach environment - including erosion, renourishment, development, public access, private ownership and environmental concerns?
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Dauphin Island considers erosion control
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. (AP) - Dauphin Island officials are looking at ways to protect the barrier island's east end from future storm erosion.
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Soil stabilization — Products/Literature — Soil Stabilization Products Company Inc — Brief Article
A 21-page brochure from Soil Stabilization Products Co., Inc., describes the EMC SQUARED[R] System for stabilization of soils and aggregates. The treatments are formulated to increase density, cementation, moisture resistance, frost-heave resistance, bearing strength, shear strength and stability.
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The Civil Engineering Portal- Geotechnical Engineering - Slope Engineering
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500,000 settlement reached over CDOT pollution
The penalty announced Friday was believed to be the highest the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has levied for water pollution linked to poor erosion control.
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CDOT fined $500,000 for polluting streams
The penalty is linked to pollution violations at 11 construction sites identified by regulators in 2005 and 2007. The penalty is the highest the state's Department of Public Health and Environment has levied for water pollution linked to poor erosion control.
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TDC won’t tap reserves for beach restoration
The TDC’s original plan was to restore all the beaches on Okaloosa Island with a combination of state grants, TDC bed taxes and a Municipal Services Benefit Unit — a special tax assessment — on beachfront property owners. Several owners and condo associations have filed suit against restoration, charging that the MSBU doesn’t conform to state rules; some owners will pay more than their fair share; and some beaches aren’t “critically eroded” enough to need more sand
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Banks face environmental fines from foreclosed subdivisions
Erosion control and other environmental issues at abandoned and foreclosed residential projects are becoming an unforeseen, but possibly large, cost for metro banks already struggling to survive.
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Marine life barriers eyed for erosion control
Crews keep building high sand barriers to protect this fragile strip of land from erosion, and nature's wrath keeps washing them away.
Now marine scientists are turning to nature itself as the solution in an experiment to mend eroded shorelines.
By planting tons of oyster shells to form angular breakwaters near Dauphin Island, they hope to show that aquatic life drawn to the shells can create a "living shoreline," preventing coastal erosion better than ugly bulkheads, blunt seawalls or feeble berms that inevitably have to be rebuilt.
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Group: 2007 Was Warm in IL; Blame Global Warming
At weather stations around Illinois , mean temperatures ranged from 1.7 to 2.1 degrees above normal last year. This is a problem, says Brian Granahan of Environment Illinois. He says the 2007 data are part of a trend which, if it continues, would give Illinois the climate of Texas by 2095. This would cause more energy consumption here to keep buildings cool, and would have an impact on agriculture ranging from more severe storms to more droughts, increased soil erosion and runoff, and more pests.
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We Need NRE (Natural Resource Education)
We often hear that the next generation must be saved from the effects we've waged on the environment. But how about teaching them to save themselves as well?
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