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Hayward Baker: Keller North America Group Acquires GeoConstruction Group

Keller North America announces the acquisition of the GeoConstruction group (“Bencor”) of Layne Christensen Company, a company that operates internationally, with headquarters in Frisco, Tex. This ac...

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Sacramento River: total make over of the levee system

Having a time frame of ten years, an extensive levee improvement project is about to hit the ground in Sacramento, with a focus on the Sacramento River south of downtown. The $1.5 billion project come...

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Greece's prefectures devastated by river overflows, as levees break and villages evacuated

Flooding phenomena continue to strike many areas in Greece, causing serious problems in populated areas and farming land as existing levees can no longer restrain the waters of swollen rivers. See the...

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Is the California levee system earthquake proof?

According to a recent state report, California's levee system appears to be vulnerable to earthquakes or other natural disasters. Despite recent remediation efforts, about $40 billion would be require...

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Ormenio, Greece saved by flooding thanks to last-minute levee

The construction of a kilometer long levee resulted in saving the village of Ormenio in the northeast of Greece from the rising water of Evros River. The extreme weather conditions resulted in damagin...

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Levee’s failure in 1993 affects a man’s life until today

A large flood back in 1993 caused a levee on the Mississippi River, in West Quincy, to break. The reasons of the disaster were many, among them a man, named James Robert Scott, with a criminal past. Q...

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Levees yield in Missouri, Germany and the Czech republic; flooding continues; thousands displaced

Levees were breached in two locations north of St. Louis, Missouri, flooding residential areas. According to CNN, “a 100- to 150-foot section of levee gave way outside West Alton, Missouri, Tuesday ne...

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ASCE releases 2013 report card on US infrastructure

The estimated investment need by 2020 is $3.6 trillion! The scores are as follows: Overall GPA is D+ Dams and drinking water: D Levees: D- Ports: C Roads: D Solid Waste: B-   Detaile...

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Cost to build levee project in Louisiana increases from $887 million to $12.9 billion

A recent report by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers re-evaluates the cost of construction of the 98-mile Morganza to the Gulf levee project in Terrebonne Parish to$12.9 billion according to the Advoca...

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Paper Competition for Students of Engineering & Related Fields

The Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO), a national non-profit organization of more than 3,000 state, federal, and private-sector members, is holding its third annual student paper compe...

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