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I'm having a difficult time keeping up with all of the Trinity developments, seeing as how there has been important news almost daily for the past couple of weeks. Yesterday, for example, councilman Mitch Rasansky, whose support for the toll road playe...
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Back during the campaign season for the 2007 referendum on the Trinity River toll road, Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow and I got into this really high-flown intellectual debate where I said, "Steve, you're stupid," and he said,...
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The results of a U.S. Army Corp of Engineers survey on Dallas' Trinity River levees could prove to be the end of the much-debated Trinity River Project.Last night, we reported the Corp of Engineers found 34 flaws in the over 170 levees along the Trinit...
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The news yesterday that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said that the Trinity River levee system isn't especially safe has pretty much put the kibosh on the Trinity toll road. ....
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says Dallas' Trinity River levees may not be able to protect the city of Dallas in the event of a major flood.The Corps conducted new inspections on the city's Trinity River levees, rating them against an 800-year flood...
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Mayor Tom Leppert reluctantly addressed local media this afternoon regarding City Manager Mary Suhm's earlier announcement that the Trinity River levees will be rated "unacceptable" in...
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Merten just got back from City Hall, where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just got through telling reporters that 34 of the 178 areas of the Trinity River levees are "unacceptable." Sam will have more to come shortly --...
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Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert disclosed today preliminary findings of inspections of the Trinity River levee system, and the news isn't good. The Army Corps of Engineers has issued an "unacceptable" rating for the Dallas levee network. Everything from soil ...
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