Monday, March 5, 2012

Flood-prone areas hope for relief

Chicago neighborhoods that suffer sewer backups with every bigstorm should get "instant relief" - in eight to 30 months - from thecity's planned $64 million project to slow the flow of storm waterinto sewers, Ald. Michael Wojcik (30th) said Tuesday.

Aldermen and residents from flood-prone areas met with MayorDaley to tell him their woes of sewage backup, stench and healthproblems. Residents had been calling for new and larger sewers, butseemed cautiously optimistic they would get relief from the plan toinstall an inlet control system.

The system would put "vortex valves" in catch basins, slowingthe entry of water into the city's …

ICRA rates Aditi Rice Mills fund-based bank limits at LC+.

(ADPnews) - Jun 10, 2010 - India's ICRA said it assigned an LC+ rating to the INR 140.5 million (USD 3m/EUR 2.5m) fund-based bank limits of local Aditi Rice Mills Private Ltd (ARMPL).

The company is in the process of setting up a rice mill in the district of Burdwan, West Bengal.

The rating factors in the delay experienced by the company in the implementation of the project, leading to a delay in payment of interest on the term loan, the somewhat aggressive funding structure of the project, cost …

IN U.S., ERS NOT READY FOR OUTBREAK.(MAIN)

Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN Knight Ridder

WASHINGTON -- America's public health system -- especially its front-line emergency rooms -- is not ready for an outbreak of SARS or a similar infectious disease, according to a new government report and top trauma doctors.

``Most hospitals lack adequate equipment, isolation facilities, and staff to treat a large increase in the number of patients for an infectious diseases such as SARS,'' the U.S. General Accounting Office reported in testimony to the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday.

``We're way behind,'' said GAO health care director Janet Heinrich in an interview Wednesday.

And emergency room doctors, meeting in Washington, told Knight Ridder Newspapers that such an outbreak could collapse an …