Sand Supply Dwindling Along Flood-Swollen Mississippi River. (Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  July 23, 1993 ;     547 words ......Highway 141 has sold a lot of sand for flood-fighting efforts in Arnold...office manager. The quarry had sand stockpiled before the flood and still has at least 30,000...Weber has sold and donated sand for the flood and has been able to supply...

Scott County approves mining contract; The county has entered into a...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 19, 2005 ;     288 words ......board approved Jeff Flood's request to mine sand, gravel and rock...agreement with Jeff Flood and his brother...land and remove the sand, Sobota said. But...level agreement. Flood could not be reached...Sobota noted that the sand needs to be removed...

`Young sand' keeps act together

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 20, 1997 ;     700+ words ......key. Although, it should definitely not be wasted on the sand. It took me and my fellow "Peukies" two days to compact five mulls into a sand lump that looked exactly like an 18-foot-tall waterbed...to start at the top and work your way down, 2) keep the sand wet, 3) use special knives and trowels called ...

Midwest Farmers Find Fields of Sand Where Flood Flowed

Chicago Sun-Times;  April 3, 1994 ;     509 words ......His tracks fade quickly as a cold west wind scatters the sand. Grit crunches between his teeth and stings his eyes. Ninety...courtesy of the Pinckney Bottom levee break in July and a second flood in October. Both times, when the waters receded, the sand stayed behind, sealing off the fertile loam ...

Sand From '93 Floods Leave Midwest Farmers Beached

NPR All Things Considered;  March 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......with several feet of sterile sand. It won't hold water or grow...been out all day, bulldozing sand. He's scraping it off the fields...enormous cost of removing the sand. The going rate is about $1,600 to get rid of one foot of sand from one acre of ground. Instead...can't calculate how much the ...

REVERE BEACH EROSION PLAN FAULTED BY OFFICIALS CITY OBJECTS TO TRAFFIC,...

The Boston Globe;  October 7, 1988 ;     468 words ......public beach, once coated with a sand "so brilliant you thought you...making sure the beach remains a flood-control barrier, have sought...transporting 800,000 cubic yards of sand from the Revere-Saugus line. Furthermore, the sand is more the color of amber than...that is, for the color of the ...

After the Deluge, the World in a Grain of Sand; Dismantling Flood Walls...

The Washington Post;  June 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ...As a flood that has prompted horrible...you do with all that sand? In the disaster narrative...because that could affect flood-damage classification...bags and loose piles of sand were delivered by the...adrenaline that fuels pre-flood preparation dissipates...

Cape May, N.J., Restaurateur Plagued by Sand after Beach Replenishment.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  March 20, 2001 ;     700+ words ......says. The problem now is the sand. How am I supposed to open...for summer tourists and for flood protection. One might think...combined with the pumped-in sand to create an ongoing pileup...their view from a newly built sand dune, with one owner winning...fight a proposed new Army corps ...

Sand Creek teacher finds comic book business can be prickly

The Gazette;  March 18, 2001 ;     477 words ......Los Comics. The other half is in the Murray, Ky., home of Flood's friend and partner, Mickey Garrison. The two grew up...crop of comics. "We just felt they had gone downhill," Flood says. Violence and anti-heroes were on the upswing while...cactus-themed superhero, and a two-in-one book starring Flood's ...

Jersey Shore restaurateur grits his teeth as the sand drifts up.(Knight...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 21, 2001 ;     700+ words ......says. The problem now is the sand. How am I supposed to open...for summer tourists and for flood protection. One might think...combined with the pumped-in sand to create an ongoing pileup...their view from a newly built sand dune, with one owner winning...fight a proposed new Army corps ...

Rivals eat Quinn's sand

Evening Standard - London;  February 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......two feet are suffering from sand between the toes. The stuff...ticking over when frost and flood has knocked out National Hunt...rode about eight winners on the sand because I got a ban early on...to the bank." Racing on the sand is an acquired art, which Quinn...boast that I know every grain of ...

Sand, bags delivered to Davenport

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 14, 2001 ;     244 words ......Sandbags are being delivered to flood-prone areas of Davenport as...and started deliveries of sand and bags Friday to help home...ward off a potential 20-foot flood, which would be the third...In the Quad Cities, where flood stage is 15 feet, the river...and 22.5 feet in 1965. If a flood of ...

FEMA's Restoration Of Beaches Criticized; $15 Million Spent on Sand To Fix...

The Washington Post;  May 30, 2004 ;     700+ words ......sections of the North Carolina shoreline are running out of sand, leaving local officials to scramble for replacement sand and the money to pay for it. In the past, many of these...the Corps has also served as the largest source of federal sand dollars for eroding beaches. Since the mid-1950s, it ...

BEACH FORTIFIES TO FEND OFF STORMS SEA WALL MUST DO DOUBLE DUTY UNTIL...

The Virginian Pilot;  August 13, 2000 ;     700+ words ......sapping the energy of big storm surges. But most of the sand - 4.5 million cubic yards of it - won't be delivered until...the last of the funding until then. The city added extra sand recently, and parts of the beach are wider than they have...holding their breath as the city awaits the mountain of sand ...

For Some, 2001 Flood Offered a Raw Lesson; Bloomingdale, LeDroit Park...

The Washington Post;  September 19, 2003 ;     558 words ...Some stuffed bags with sand -- and when the stores sold out of sand, they bought mulch or bagged...for the inevitable. In two flood-prone neighborhoods of Northwest...stuffed white trash bags with sand in front of the house that...keep on continuing having a flood and losing things." Then ...