Rome ends ’08 with rainfall deficit

Staff Writer - Rome News-Tribune

Date: 1/2/2009

Floyd County finished 2008 with a 7.82-inch rainfall deficit. While that’s not good news, a wet December helped the region make up some lost ground as much of the Southeast continues to struggle with drought conditions.December saw 7.59 inches of rain fall on Rome, bringing the annual total to 47.02. The… Read More

FERC Approves First Hydrokinetic Device for Existing Hydroelectric Project

Celeste M. Miller - Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Date: 12/15/2008

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved the first installation of ahydrokinetic device at an existing FERC-licensed hydroelectric project, to be located on the Mississippi Riverin Hastings, Minn.Hydrokinetic devices generate electricity from waves or directly from the flow of water in oceancurrents… Read More

Tri-state water wars fought on many fronts

Harris Blackwood - The Gainesville Times

Date: 11/30/2008

The 18-year-old dispute over water between Georgia, Florida and Alabama is a tangled web that includes seven federal lawsuits in three different court systems and a plethora of plaintiffs.There are six suits that have been moved to the Middle District of Florida, where a federal judge from Minnesota, Paul Magnuson, will… Read More

Ethanol Gasoline in Marine Engines

Lakes Online - LakesOnline.com

Date: 11/19/2008

Your boat’s greatest enemy may be its fuel. There are a number of reports in the press about the negative effects of ethanol in marine fuel tanks -- this is a concern for boat owners. The problem began when many areas began banning the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), replacing it with ethanol blends. This… Read More

28-year-old Kim Bain - First Woman to fish Bassmaster Classic

Sam Eifling - ESPN Bassmaster

Date: 11/3/2008

The differences between the Bassmaster Classic in 1969 and in 2009 will be profound. The man who won that first Classic, Bobby Murray, remembers the weigh-in taking place on the roof of a floating dock on Lake Mead — a lake that none of the competitors had fished before, nor knew, until they were in the air en route… Read More