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Clean Water Advocates Seek Legal Pressure in Baltimore

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billion in repairs to its sewer system over the next 15 years. An agreement reached by local and state agencies last month to stop the chronic sewage leaks into the Patapsco River and other tributaries requires Baltimore to complete key repairs by 2021 and develop a plan for additional sewage projects for the next 15 years.

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Maryland Bans Polystyrene and Enacts 31 other New Environmental Laws

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Senate Bill 249 / House Bill 277 (both passed) authorize the Governor to include the State as a full participant in any regional governmental initiative, agreement, or compact that limits or reduces GHG emissions from the transportation sector. Water and Sewer Services. Zero-emission Vehicles. Septic Systems.

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Ohio Demolition & Revitalization Construction: What’s Getting Funding & How Contractors Can Benefit

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State funding isn’t only going to be directed to public works projects, as private entity Intel is likely going to receive around $1.1 billion from the budget in order to fund major new construction projects in the state. .

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Want to be believed? Use the Baskerville font

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Like the “ mass flush” ordered by Bulawayo’s municipal government to clean out the city’s sewer system. (A advantage, in that that’s how much higher agreement is with it relative to the average of the other fonts. After all, they did flush quite a few toilets in Bulawayo to clear out the sewer system.

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#75:  Recovery for Defective Work After Termination for Convenience

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The trial court disallowed the setoff, and the appeals court agreed, ruling that “the text of the termination for convenience clause, in context, does not under the circumstances of this case permit Catamount to both terminate Steelwood without cause and subsequently proceed against Steelwood as if it had terminated the agreement for cause. [W]e

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Iron Mountain Picks Northern Virginia For Data Center Campus

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The Prince William Board of County Supervisors approved an agreement between Iron Mountain Information Management, LLC and the Industrial Development Authority (IDA) of Prince William County and agreed to assign $500,000 in water and sewer availability fee credits to the IDA, as an incentive for the project.

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10 Signs of Bad Concrete Pour

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Concrete is used in the construction of culverts and sewers. They don’t like written agreements. Concrete is also used in the construction of foundations and basements. Concrete is used in the casting of beams and columns. Why Hairline Cracks in Concrete | Types of Cracks in Concrete . Don’t let it rain on your parade.