Construction crews are excavating dirt for a regional retention pond near the corner 23rd Street Southwest and South Taft Avenue, in anticipation of the new Aspen Knolls subdivision.

In building the new pond, which is fed by groundwater, VanDeWalle and the DOT had some 10 years of hydrological data and plenty of information on turtle movements that went into the pond design.

Turtles in a popular City of Fairfax pond will be safely relocated in the next few days and weeks, ahead of a monthslong dredging and construction project at Ashby Pond.

DES MOINES, Iowa (CN) - A construction company is liable for breach of warranty for building a "waterless pond," the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday, reversing a district court decision. The ...