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In a strong rebuke by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the agency proposing a toll road through San Onofre State Beach has been accused of making false and misleading statements in an appeal to federal officials. Col. Thomas H.

Over the years, the Los Angeles River has been redrawn, clad in concrete, tainted with chemicals, invaded by countless Hollywood car chases, dismissed as a glorified storm drain. Now comes the latest slap. The city's river can't even float enough boats to qualify as a full-fledged navigable waterway, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. River advocates are outraged. "They're just wrong. That's the simple version of it.

Heather Wylie's kayaking trip down a stretch of the Los Angeles River one Saturday in July was more than a little weekend urban adventure. Wylie, a project manager in the Ventura field office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, joined local environmentalists to make a point: You can float a boat down the concrete-lined river channel, even if what you're paddling through is mostly street runoff and treated water from sewage plants. Wylie's bosses were not happy.

A federal judge in New Orleans ruled that residents of areas heavily flooded when Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters were funneled down a New Orleans navigation channel can sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval rejected the corps' argument that U.S. law protects federal agencies from lawsuits when flood control projects fail.

With a $77-billion claim, the city of New Orleans led tens of thousands of homeowners and businesses seeking compensation from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for losses suffered when levees protecting the city ruptured under the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina. Kathleen Gibbs, a spokeswoman in the corps' New Orleans district office, said that by Monday at least 34,500 claims had arrived by mail.

The head of the Army Corps of Engineers said that excessive vibration problems with defective pumps at three major drainage canals in New Orleans would be fixed within seven weeks, before the 2007 hurricane season opened. "By the end of April, we will have those pumps operating effectively," Lt. Gen. Carl Strock told members of a Senate subcommittee. "We know what the problems are and we have the solutions in place."

A former employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has agreed to plead guilty to rigging a bid on repairs to levees in the New Orleans area, Justice Department officials announced Thursday, as part of a broader investigation into procurement fraud in levee reconstruction. The case marks the first criminal charges against a corps official involved in New Orleans levees since Hurricane Katrina, a department spokeswoman said.

The New Orleans hurricane disaster, worsened by levees that failed, has prompted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to consider speeding up flood prevention efforts in northwest Orange County. At issue is a potential $330-million combined federal and county effort to fortify 77 miles of aging, substandard flood channels in northwest Orange County -- some flanked by crumbling earthen embankments -- that snake through backyards, gullies, industrial areas, wetlands and parks.

Three environmental groups filed suit against the Army Corps of Engineers on Tuesday, accusing the federal agency of not properly protecting the Santa Clara River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in Southern California.

Authorities are resorting to a risky new method aimed at helping preserve what is believed to be the sunken flagship of the pirate Blackbeard. The Army Corps of Engineers is creating an underwater sand dune to shelter the Queen Anne's Revenge, which sits about 26 feet underwater off the North Carolina coast. The untried method could potentially damage the ship, which sank in 1718. But if it works, experts said it could be a model for protecting other underwater archeological finds.