Subject:

Engineering

  • News

    September 8, 2011
  • News

    March 20, 2008

    Poisoned Well

    What was contaminating our drinking water? Who knows - Dade officials stopped looking.

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2007

    Imagineering the Possibilities

    What was contaminating our drinking water? Who knows - Dade officials stopped looking.

  • News

    June 21, 2007

    Clever Green

    Florida is starved for electricity. Some eco-renegades are growing their own.

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Return of Three Mile Island?

    Exelon plans to build a new nuclear power plant. Ho-hum.

  • News

    July 18, 2002

    God's Eye on the Sparrow

    Should 2700 little birds be allowed to hold up the reclaiming of the Everglades?

  • News

    May 18, 2000

    Better Lake Than Never?

    Officials insist the Lake Belt created by limestone mining in Northwest Miami-Dade will be an eco-panacea. Critics say that's all wet.

  • News

    July 1, 1999

    Swamp and Circumstance

    Planners hope the Natural System Model can help restore the Everglades. But will it survive politics?

  • News

    March 18, 1999

    Home on the Glades

    For the Cuban cowboys of west Miami-Dade, restoring the Everglades means destroying their way of life

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    Life's a Ditch

    Residents of the controversial 8 1/2 Square Mile Area fear a government conspiracy to flush them from their homes

  • News

    February 29, 1996

    Left Out

    When Everglades National Park chief Dick Ring held a feel-good camp-out in the Dry Tortugas, he really toasted some people's marshmallows

  • News

    January 25, 1996

    GET THE KIDS INSIDE! BOLT THE DOOR!

    Toxic sewage spawns swamp monsters; officials say no cause for alarm

  • News

    December 14, 1995

    Nice House, Rotten Spot

    This can't be what the real estate pros have in mind when they say "Location, location, location"

  • News

    March 2, 1995

    Here' s Looking At You

    Airport officials want to clarify those warning signs about lead in the drinking water at MIA: Never mind! Just ignore 'em!

  • News

    January 26, 1995

    The Million-Dollar Flush

    At last an agreement between the county and the feds over Dade's sewage mess. The price could make you gag.

  • News

    January 5, 1995

    The Last Frontier

    When authorities pledged to reflood the Everglades, they tried to accommodate residents of the 8 1/2 Square Mile Area in Southwest Dade. They're still trying.

  • News

    October 20, 1994

    Running on Empty

    A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

  • News

    October 20, 1994

    Gully Gee!

    A century of messing with Mother Nature has robbed the Everglades of too much water. Now we don't even have enough for ourselves.

  • News

    October 12, 1994
  • News

    April 27, 1994

    Greener Runaways

    A "proactive" Metro-Dade is dragged kicking and screaming into environment consciousness

  • News

    April 21, 1993

    We Don't Swim in Your Toilet

    So don't complain when we spill 25 million gallons of sewage onto your beaches

  • News

    March 31, 1993

    Sewergate

    If you think Dade County is a filthy mess now, just wait till you're drowning in it

  • News

    January 6, 1993

    Waste Erased

    Scientist Brian LaPointe wants to tame the sugar barons, corner the cat food market, and solve the sewage problems of the Florida Keys

  • News

    July 1, 1992

    Straight Flush

    Experts say the big sewage pipeline under Biscayne Bay could burst at any moment. If it does -- bye, bye, Miami.

  • News

    April 10, 1991

    Canoe Trip

    Experts say the big sewage pipeline under Biscayne Bay could burst at any moment. If it does -- bye, bye, Miami.

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