The world of administrative law offers many specializations, including, as one Ohio community is discovering, civil works law.
Hundreds of homes in Buckeye Lake were built on the backside of an
earthen dam, as the Columbus
Dispatch reports, leading the US
Army Corps of Engineers to conclude the dam is at risk of “catastrophic
damage.”
Civil works law includes both federal and state matters,
further complicating the legal framework.
Situations like this potential dam failure, involve many issues, from
fiscal law and government contracting to environmental law. Both the Corps and the Ohio Department of
Natural Resources (ODNR), the dam’s owner, offer dam safety programs. To explore dam safety in particular, you
might examine both the
Corps and ODNR
websites.
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