| U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blocks plan to dam Susquehanna
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. (AP) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Thursday that it is denying a permit for an inflatable dam to be built across the Susquehanna River in Wilkes-Barre.
The Luzerne County Flood Protection Authority had proposed building a structure that would have reached 9 1/2 feet high and impounded 4 1/2 miles of the free flowing river. The corps said in a statement that the dam was not the least environmentally damaging way to control floods in the area.
The proposed $14 million dam would fill an acre of wetlands and disrupt the natural current in violation of the Clean Water Act, which requires the corps to maintain the biological integrity of U.S. waterways, the statement said.
The idea of the dam was pushed for many years by U.S.
Beautiful Miss Idaho in LCHS Parade
Help Me God Bless You.
A toothless grin framed
by a rough pepper beard.
I drive away and wonder
how much faith it must take
to ask God to bless us
with our groceries, our cars,
our warm jackets.
St. Peter will wave him in.
All the ones with their signs. His Bobness .
Chlorine gas leak at Big Butte Springs plant creates alarm
A chlorine gas leak at the Big Butte Springs water disinfecting plant created a scare for several hours Monday morning. Alarms sounded at the plant near Fish Lake Road, indicating a leak, said Larry Rains, manager for the Medford Water Commission, which operates the plant. The building and nearby homes were evacuated. Rains said the leak was initially treated as a serious incident because officials didn't know the extent of the problem. The leak was contained by mid-afternoon and deemed small, said Laura Hodnett, public information coordinator for the commission. Hodnett said the water is safe to drink for everyone except 68 residential customers who obtain water directly from the Big Butte Springs pipeline. They have been cautioned to boil their water before using it.
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