BOISE – Enough acid-laced water to fill more than five Olympic-sized swimming pools breached a berm at an eastern Idaho fertilizer manufacturer, inundating a nearby farmer’s field but injuring nobody, ...

A Utah lawmaker has proposed a new idea to mitigate Great Salt Lake dust: build berms to temporarily trap water and form a crust over the exposed lakebed. Once the surface has hardened, that water ...

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PROMONTORY POINT, Utah — It's a sight that has railroad workers and state water officials smiling. Water is spilling over an emergency berm in Union Pacific Railroad's causeway across the Great Salt ...

Functionally, a berm, a raised strip of ground or man-made hill running along a road is beneficial in abating noise along busy streets, providing visual screening to insure privacy or redirecting ...

The seaside community of Laguna Beach is home to a great many beaches, and of course there are beach and ocean enthusiasts aplenty. Local environmentalists lately have expanded their efforts to seek ...

LAGUNA BEACH — Sun umbrellas and beach towels spread across a wide sand berm at the mouth of Aliso Creek, at Aliso Beach, have been common sights from Coast Highway for the last several months. But it ...

River water continues to rise in Nahanni Butte, N.W.T. — but the fact it's going up slower now than it was last week doesn't offer much comfort to the community's leader. Nahɂą Dehé Dene Band Chief ...

A 5-foot wall of water pouring through a broken levee would have wreaked havoc on the nearly completed Cabela’s store in Hammond had a newly built berm not stopped it, according to the Post-Tribune of ...

According to Ugu, generous businessmen have come forward to help build an emergency berm across the Umzimkhulu River. Ugu spokesman France Zama has said this emergency berm is being fast-tracked in ...

AMMAN — Jordan has allowed the entry of food and water to refugees stranded across Jordan’s border with Syria in the no-man’s-land, an official source said. The opening of borders for aid delivery is ...