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| | | | | | Friday, March 12, 2010 | 6:07:27 AM
Army Errors Push Reno-Sparks Flood Plan Back Again
RENO, Nev. (AP) An ongoing effort to step up flood protection in the Reno-Sparks area is turning into a bit of a disaster itself.
City officials said errors that were made while rushing through a flood plan for the Truckee River will delay congressional approval by another year. That means local residents could suffer through another significant flood like the one that caused nearly $800 million in damage in January 1997 before the project is ever built.
“This keeps moving back,” said Ron Smith, a Sparks councilman who serves on a local coalition pursuing the flood project.
“We’ve got a lot of risk out there, and this is unacceptable,” he told the Reno Gazette-Journal.
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Wash., Ore. Govs: Move New I-5 Bridge Forward
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) The governors of Washington and Oregon said they want no more delays in building a new Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River, but are willing to convene a panel of experts to review the project.
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Nevada, Utah Added to Terry Equipment’s Distributorship Area
Terry Equipment Inc., GOMACO’s distributor in California and western Nevada, is now responsible for the sales and service of equipment in parts of Utah and Nevada, including the Las Vegas area. The announcement was made by Kent Godbersen, vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, GOMACO Corporation, at World of Concrete 2010.
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El Niño, Erosion Cause Major Road Washouts
For Southern California counties the periodic, yet unpredictable, arrival of the El Niño climate pattern equates to winter and spring rainfall totals that are significantly higher than historical averages for that region.
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New Cab, Options Up Versatility of Terex Fuchs MHL331 D
Combining a balance of power and agility, the Terex Fuchs MHL331 D material handler tackles a broad range of indoor and outdoor applications, including work at scrap metal feeder yards, municipal solid waste (MSW) processing at recycling/recovery facilities (MRFs), and construction and demolition (C&D) debris sorting at transfer stations.
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Lawmakers Fume Over N.M. Capital
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) With New Mexico cutting schools and health care services, lawmakers fumed Feb. 12 over a proposal to finance economic development projects benefiting corporations like the Hewlett-Packard Co.
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CEG Special Feature Report
Managing Key to a Firm’s Emergence From a Recession
Author: Giles Lambertson
(Editor’s note: This article is the final installment in a series on the nation’s and world’s current economic conditions. Over the past several weeks, Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) interviewed experts in economics and business, and even psychology, and reported on how the industry veterans are coping, and in some instances, succeeding in this downturn.