FORT LEE - Sometimes training can have a two-fold purpose - preparing soldiers or Marines for combat and making needed improvements. Marines from the Marine Wing Support Squadron 274, from Marine ...

A Utah lawmaker has proposed a new idea to mitigate Great Salt Lake dust: build berms to temporarily trap water and form a crust over the exposed lakebed. Once the surface has hardened, that water ...

Yes, a merger of UNO and SUNO could present opportunities for growth and improvement of both schools. Such growth, however, would depend on an administrative system that was truly devoted to ...

NEW ULM, Minn. (AP)-- New Ulm is building a berm to protect itself against the Minnesota River. Tony Berdan of M R Paving told the New Ulm Journal rain might delay the work, but he expects the berm ...

NOME, Alaska (AP) - A small Alaska community at risk of erosion is taking matters into its own hands, building a coastal berm as a line of defense against fall storm surges. Residents of Shaktoolik, ...

Workers on Tuesday began building a berm in the Oso mudslide debris field. The temporary wall of rock and dirt, which will be approximately 2,000 feet long, will drain the water from the area around C ...

YORK — At the end of Cox Drive, near a dump transfer station, are 70-foot-tall berms for a future York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office shooting range. The sheriff’s office is a year and a half to two years ...

Call it Boeing's berm. The aerospace giant is taking sandbagging to another level. In an attempt to avoid flooding from the Green River, a Boeing contractor is constructing an 8-foot-high berm of sand ...

The berm is required by a township ordinance adopted in 1999 regarding landscaping and screening. However, township officials can decide to waive the requirement if they believe there are enough ...

This year, the state is launching a program to help homeowners raise their houses and protect them from flood damage. Meanwhile, a Volusia County couple has taken matters into their own hands by ...