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New York State road work account raided, little left for repairs

Michelle Breidenbach of The Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) mined state financial documents to show the abuse of New York State's Dedicated Highway and Bridge Trust Fund. It's not "dedicated" at all. […]
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Cost of Bay Area bridge project unprecedented

Patricia Decker and Robert Porterfield have found the construction project on the east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge will be the most expensive project ever done in the […]
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Canal safety issues were raised prior to fatal mudslide

An investigation by Matthew D. LaPlante and Nate Carlisle of The Salt Lake Tribune found that "Logan City received repeated warnings that a privately owned canal that runs along the […]
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City cannot account for one quarter of its water supply

"Of the 2.1 billion gallons of water that flowed through city water mains in fiscal year 2007-2008, 26 percent went unbilled - or unaccounted - for," according to an analysis […]
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Cities and county failed to inspect fire hydrants

An investigation by Matt Dixon of The Villages Daily Sun (The Villages, Fla.) revealed that fire hydrants in Sumter County have not been regularly inspected.   A request for maintenance records […]
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Streetlight outages plague Detroit

The Detroit Free Press looked into the on-going problem of streetlight outages in the city.  "The Free Press spent three nights in March driving more than 200 miles of city […]
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Coal ash dam in Tennessee had previous leaks

"The chief executive of the Tennessee Valley Authority, which operates the coal-burning power plant responsible for an enormous flood of coal ash in East Tennessee late last month, acknowledged Thursday […]
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Road repairs slower in minority neighborhoods

Keegan Kyle, Grant Smith and Ben Poston of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel analyzed more than 11,000 pothole fixes in the city of Milwaukee and found that the city repaired potholes […]
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Population growth impacting dam safety issues

A report by Jim Getz of The Dallas Morning News looks at the impact of population growth on dam safety. The investigation "found that suburban sprawl has encroached on hundreds […]
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Progress slow in bridge repairs across the U.S.

"A year after the worst U.S. bridge collapse in a generation brought calls for immediate repairs to other spans, two of every three of the busiest problem bridges in each […]
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