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6 Dec 2009, 1:59 am
Army Corps of Engineers jurisdiction over land adjacent to the "navigateable waters of the United States. [read post]
5 Dec 2009, 3:26 am by Dianne Saxe
Last month, the Eastern District of Louisiana held the US government liable for $719,698 to owners of four homes flooded by Hurricane Katrina, because it had negligently operated and maintained key infrastructure.In Re Katrina Canal Breaches Consolidated Litigation, Judge Duval held that the Army Corps of Engineers had statutory immunity for the design and construction of the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet (MRGO), an artificial waterway for ship traffic from the… [read post]
2 Dec 2009, 6:40 pm by Bill Ward
" The New Jersey Supreme Court spent most of its time questioning Liu’s attorney, Peter Wegener, regarding the title to the additional 225 feet of beachfront land, which accrued to the property as a result of a 1998 beachfront replenishment project undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 9:25 am by smtaber
Army Corps of Engineers violated federal environmental laws by failing to give the public enough of a say before issuing permits for mountaintop removal coal mines in West Virginia, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 11:34 pm
The site on Cantiague Rock Road in Hicksville has been the subject of 27 investigations and cleanups since 1987, when the Nassau health department found PCBs, chlorinated solvents and arsenic in dozens of buried drums, according to an Army Corps of Engineers report in 2007. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 1:57 pm
Duval ruled that the US Army Corps of Engineers committed "gross negligence" in failing to maintain the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet. [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 6:26 am
Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat, and John McCain, an Arizona Republican, said the ruling was "further proof that the Army Corps of Engineers is in urgent need of reform. ... [read post]
20 Nov 2009, 4:05 am
Judge finds Army Corps of Engineers negligent in Katrina levees suit [WSJ Law Blog, Krauss/PoL] Feds raise the Gibson guitar factory in Nashville on an exotic-woods rap [The Tennessean] Eric Scheie has a few things to say about what turns out to be a remarkably comprehensive federal regulatory scheme on trade in wood enacted with little public discussion as part of the 2008 farm bill [Classical Values] In the mail: Amy Bach's new book Ordinary Injustice: How America… [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 6:00 pm by Timothy R. Hughes
The court ruled that the United States was liable because the flooding leading to the homeowners' damages was caused by negligent maintenance of a significant navigation channel by the US Army Corps of Engineers. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 5:38 am
A federal trial judge has found the Army Corps of Engineers to have been grossly negligent, and the proximate cause of the flooding of the Lower 9th Ward and St. [read post]
19 Nov 2009, 2:35 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] on Wednesday found [text, PDF] the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) [official website] negligent in its operation and maintenance of the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet (MRGO) [USACE backgrounder]. [read post]
18 Nov 2009, 3:38 pm by Steven Taber
The airport has been working with various rail carriers, the Indiana Toll Road Commission, and the Gary Redevelopment Commission, and is working on final approval of legal contracts and engineering designs. [read post]
17 Nov 2009, 10:35 am
 The Army Corps of Engineers, using its authority under the Rivers and Harbors Act, has the authority to designate such ocean areas for danger areas. [read post]
24 Oct 2009, 5:54 am
Army Corps of Engineers to take emergency action to stop the threat now and to look at the separation of the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes as a permanent solution.The CSSC is a man-made waterway that connects Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River basin. [read post]
11 Oct 2009, 11:45 pm
Army Corps of Engineers are permitted to use Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity contracts (IDIQ) for design and construction of multiple military facilities. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 12:44 pm
Army Corps of Engineers will hold six public hearings on Oct. 13 and 15 to receive public comments on the two proposals related to the use of Nationwide Permit (NWP) 21 in the nation's Appalachian region. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 4:02 pm
Army Corps of Engineers – Jacksonville District Social Media User Guidelines U.S. [read post]
22 Sep 2009, 11:44 am
" Lisa Jackson, the EPA Administrator, attempted to emphasis that this was an "enhanced coordination process" between EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers and that it was not a change in policy. [read post]