Water Resources News and Events

The News Review:

- Bethpage pursuers smell blood in the water
- The U.S. pen’s Giant Water Hazard
- Fight is on for water supplies
- NTSB finds water on rails at Ill. derailment site

Bethpage pursuers smell blood in the water
Yahoo! Sports
– The final round of the 109th U. pen needs some good theme music and not one of those soothing soundtracks of rain meant to lull insomniacs to sleep even if it’s appropriate. The tournament demands something dark and ominous downright evil sounding because everybody at Bethpage Black is convinced.

The U.S. pen’s Giant Water Hazard
Wall Street Journal
Sure the crummy weather made us cranky too. Golf is a sport prone to repetitive and occasionally somnambulant television coverage and listening to all the meandering conversations during the storm systems we felt as if trapped in a 12-hour car ride with Phil Rizzuto’s ghost. After the 18-billionth discussion of radar greens conditions and water levels we just wanted someone to say “You know what? It’s really wet dude. When it’s not so wet they’ll play. Go make a sandwich. Thank goodness for Mr. Roker who gave a dose of both meteorology and levity to Saturday’s telecast.

Fight is on for water supplies
Product Design & Development
(AP) ? Secret House Vineyards ran into regon’s emerging water shortage when it sought irrigation for 16 acres outside Eugene. The state Water Resources Department told vineyard operators they couldn’t have a new well because it would take water from a tributary to the Long Tom River. About the same time the state turned back a request for underground water for 18 homes north of Hillsboro. There wasn’t enough. Deciding who gets regon’s water falls to the tiny Water Resources Department.

NTSB finds water on rails at Ill. derailment site
The Associated Press
derailment site7 hours agoRCKFRD Ill. (AP) — There was high water along the northern Illinois rail line where a freight train derailed setting off a fiery explosion and killing one person federal authorities said Sunday. It’s unclear what the exact water levels were during Friday’s crash and what role if any water played in the accident said Robert Sumwalt of the National Transportation Safety Board. Parts of northern Illinois may have gotten as much as 4 inches of rain Friday according to the National Weather Service. Chicago’s ‘Hare International Airport 40 to 50 miles east of Rockford measured 3. 6 inches a record for the date.
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