Tag: Creek

Who is buying up St. Petersburg’s Salt Creek boatyards, and why?

Since a billion-dollar plan to turn an industrial marine service hub in St. Petersburg into a village of condos, affordable housing and office, hotel and conference space fell through a few years ago, the property owners, workers and residents around Salt Creek knew it wouldn’t be long before another outfit eyed the area for redevelopment. […]

Golf course community has been discharging too much pollution into creek

The Terrace Hill Sanitary Sewer District uses a lagoon to treat wastewater just north of Hampton. (Photo courtesy of Google Earth) A residential area near the Hampton Country Club in north-central Iowa has for years exceeded its ammonia and bacteria limits for wastewater that is discharged into a creek, according to the Iowa Department of […]

Senior prank turned to damages, vandalism at Cedar Creek High School

CEDAR CREEK, Texas (KXAN) — A planned prank at Cedar Creek High School turned into damages and vandalism “far beyond a senior prank,” the Bastrop Independent School District said in a statement. A district spokesperson said campus administration worked with the senior students for a “fun senior prank that would be monitored by school staff.” […]

Residents frustrated with creek erosion

BALLWIN, Mo. – Residents of a Ballwin neighborhood are struggling as erosion from a creek is washing away their property. It’s a problem decades in the making. Sharon Mucci is one of those effected. “It’s taking our property… it’s receding so bad I would say probably two-thirds of our back yard are gone,” she said. […]