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Heavy rain earlier this week in Wisconsin flooded backyards and seeped into basements, but it's left one home in Ozaukee County teetering on a bluff along Lake Michigan.
Read More »House falls down sandy bluff along Lake Michigan shoreline
A small house along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Michigan fell down a sandy bluff in an area plagued by erosion.
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Read More »Dane County tries out $750K farm-runoff program
Dane County plans to spend $750,000 this year to test out paying farmers to plant cover crops in an attempt to curb runoff from heavy rains and snowmelt.
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Read More »NOAA gives Wisconsin $840,000 to shore up coastline properties
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Wisconsin $840,000 to help places along Lake Michigan reduce the threat from coastal hazards, Gov. Scott Walker announced Thursday.
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Read More »View from around the state: Federal aid is needed for Lake Michigan bluffs
When we talk about "federal assistance" for disaster relief, we obviously mean money and personnel subsidized by federal taxpayers. That includes those of us living here in Wisconsin. We didn't personally deliver the federal aid in times of need. But indirectly, through the taxes we pay, we did.
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Read More »Few answers for lakeshore homeowners facing bluff erosion (UPDATE)
There were a lot of questions from homeowners who live on Lake Michigan and are watching rising waters eat away at their property. But, there were few answers from federal, state and local officials who met with the property owners in Mount Pleasant on Tuesday evening.
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Read More »Erosion, bluff collapses threaten Lake Michigan communities
Severe erosion along some of Wisconsin's Lake Michigan communities is threatening homes and causing bluffs to collapse.
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Read More »Builders, officials wait for state’s erosion rules
When the state adopts its uniform erosion-control standards, Mark Etrheim said, he wants it to eliminate a La Crosse County rule forcing his company to lay down a gravel driveway before beginning work on a house.
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Read More »Budget to impact construction industry
In signing the state’s 2013-15 budget bill Sunday, Gov. Scott Walker left unchanged a tax increase that is estimated to cost construction companies and other heavy users of the state’s unemployment fund millions of dollars in the coming years.
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Read More »GOP move gives state more control on construction
Democrats said a move to standardize erosion control rules for commercial construction sites is another effort by Republicans to take power away from local authorities.
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