VASS (AP) A judge has ordered the owners of a troubled dam in North Carolina to pay the state $1.1 million because of a breach. Woodlake CC Corp. has agreed in a consent judgment filed in Moore County this month ...

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Residents living in North Carolina whose community dam was damaged by Hurricane Matthew have won a $162.5 million judgment against the dam’s owner. The Associated Press reports that Woodlake residents say that Woodlake Corp. failed to maintain the dam and ...

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The state Division of Energy, Mineral and Land Resources has filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Woodlake dam near Fayetteville, hoping to force them to either repair it or to tear the dam down. The structure has been ...

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