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Muddy 98

Number 23629
Subject Environment
Source Press-Register (Mobile, Ala.)
State AL
Year 2007
Publication Date 09/16/2007; 12/17/2007
Summary "Reporter Ben Raines discovered that lax oversight and poor engineering of a major highway project had allowed thousands of tons of mud to wash into Mobile's drinking water supply and the numerous creeks and wetlands that feed it."
Category Contest Entry
Pages 28
Keywords environment; water supply; unsafe construction; public health; highway development; environmental agency
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