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Wed May 24, 2017

Grand Canyon Water Pipeline Repairs Complete

Repairs to the damaged water pipeline serving Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim were completed ahead of schedule, allowing lodging for those with prior reservations, campgrounds and other services to open May 15 as normally scheduled....

Wed May 24, 2017

Spaghetti Bowl Improvements to Move Forward

The Nevada Department of Transportation selected CH2M to provide environmental and preliminary design services to pave the way for reconstruction of the outdated I-80/I-580/U.S. 395 system to system interchange in Reno to accommodate future travel demands....

Wed May 24, 2017

Ditch Witch of Arizona Reaches Remodel Project Milestone

Ditch Witch of Arizona celebrated the completion of Phase 1 of its facility remodel with a customer appreciation event on May 12. Phase 1 included the service facility and washbay. The complete remodel is scheduled to be finished in 2018....

Dan Elliott - ASSOCIATED PRESS - Wed May 24, 2017

$400M Northern Colorado Reservoir Gets Final Approval

The federal government gave final approval for a $400 million dam and reservoir in northern Colorado where 13 cities and water districts will store water from the other side of the Continental Divide. The Army Corps of Engineers issued a permit for construction of the Chimney Hollow Reservoir in the foothills about 50 mi....

Bruce Krasnow - Wed May 24, 2017

New Mexico's Construction Industry Booming in 2017

With work under way on a Facebook data center in Los Lunas, a major rapid transit project in Albuquerque and hospitals and roads in Santa Fe, New Mexico's construction industry is off to one of its best starts in years....

Dylan Baddour - Houston Chronicle - Wed May 24, 2017

Houston Set for $3B Water Supply Pipeline

Any Houstonian who's ever stalled out in a rush-hour gully washer, swatted mosquitoes on a humid summer afternoon or hauled soggy carpet to the curb after a neighborhood flash flood will be forgiven for thinking the supply of water is one thing they needn't worry about....

Chuck Harvey - Wed May 24, 2017

ART Project Speeds Ahead on Old Route 66

A $119 million Albuquerque Rapid Transit (ART) project will culminate with an 8.8-mi. electric-powered bus line with 20 stations on Central Avenue, formerly a portion of Route 66 that runs through New Mexico's largest city....

Tue May 23, 2017

Landslide on California Highway Part of $1 Billion in Damage

A massive landslide that went into the Pacific Ocean is the latest natural disaster to hit a California community that relies heavily on an iconic coastal highway and tourism to survive, and it adds to a record $1 billion in highway damage from one of the state's wettest winters in decades....

Mon May 22, 2017

Business Leaders Urge State to Invest In Coal Research

Wyoming business leaders are recommending investing a $1.5 million grant in a proposed coal research facility. The Casper Star-Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/2pWIenk ) the Wyoming Business Council made the recommendation for the grant for a research facility on alternative uses for coal in northeast Wyoming on Thursday....

Thu May 18, 2017

Ca. Races to Fix Oroville Spillway

California plans to shut the shattered main spillway of the Oroville Dam for the summer, launching an all-out race to get the spillway operational again before the next rainy season. The state's Department of Water Resources says it will start scaling back releases down the spillway Friday morning....