Staff from Naperville’s Public Works, and Transportation, Engineering and Development departments put their heads together and realized they had an idea that could offer a solution: Build a berm.

Savoie said with a 12-foot-wide berm, he’d use about 18 inches of tilled-up clay soil that has been smoothed out and then add composted soil to reach a height of 24 inches.

“Our organizations don’t have any funding to rebuild right now. We need financial assistance, ASAP. Our lives are at stake,” said Takak. Mayor Lars Sookiyak says Shaktoolik is pressed for time.

Water is spilling over an emergency berm in Union Pacific Railroad’s causeway across the Great Salt Lake. What that means is lake levels have risen to the point where water is again reaching the ...

The state has charged the village with allowing contaminated dirt to be used to build a 1,100-foot-long berm along Route 17 north from 2019 to 2020.

Most of the $10 million to construct the Beach berm came from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA. Budget bill's impact in SWFL: New requirements could greatly affect health coverage.

The remediation is in addition to $350,000 in the 2024 capital budget for soil testing and archeological study of the site. The berm was installed in 2018 to 2019 under the administrations of ...

Tomecek said the area saw 7 inches in three minutes the day the stormwater berm broke. “It busted through that berm, and it did cause some damage to at least one person's property,” Tomecek said.