Lebow Channel is an urban stream that has drained floodwaters from neighborhoods dating back to the 1960s, but it has suffered from prolonged erosion from numerous floods.
This transformative flood control and community recreation project repurposed a former golf course into a multifunctional nature park and stormwater detention facility.
Terms were not disclosed of the civil settlement with plaintiffs, but it "will allow LAN to put this matter behind them and focus on their future," an attorney says.
Veolia North America and Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. are accused of professional negligence in a lawsuit filed by families of four Flint, Mich., children.
The ethics and standard-of-care witness in the negligence trial of two engineering firms connected to the 2015 Flint, Mich., water crisis said in three days of testimony that both firms failed to act to stop or limit the public danger despite having the knowledge and obligation to alert higher government authorities.
Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam, its parent Leo A Day and Veolia North America face claims of professional negligence in the civil court case related to the Michigan city's crisis over lead in its water supply.
When developers attempted to convert a 200-acre defunct golf course in Houston into a commercial development, various groups coalesced with another idea.