Environment
BPF promotes environmental regulatory reform and actively engages the bureaucracy regulating flooding on the Mississippi River. BPF believes mitigating the flooding by using Old River Control Complex would give Mississippians back their privately owned land.
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Another Stacked Deck: The Yazoo Backwater Pumps Project
So you want to bet against the Mississippi River?
Growing Concern about Mississippi River Course Change
That’s the subject of a recent article in The Advocate of Baton Rouge and also a similar recent article in The Times Picayune of New Orleans. It’s also something we have been talking about and testifying about before the Mississippi River Commission for the last two years.
The Undead Yazoo Backwater Pumps Project
Its tomb was sealed over in 2012 when the Fifth Circuit upheld the District Court decision against the Mississippi Levee Board’s challenge to the EPA ruling. But a bony hand is emerging from the tomb.
Lessons from Hurricane Harvey on Flooding
Storms are random natural events. The consequences may be aggravated or mitigated by intentional acts of man.
Mississippi River Commission: Kelley Williams in Vicksburg August 2017
I appreciate your invitation to testify again. I will testify about backwater flooding at Vicksburg. It’s bad and getting worse — as others will attest.
The Chief Engineer’s Legacy
Elam, of course, didn’t know the Corps would restrict the flow. But he could have predicted the result. The river would back up, rise, flood the batture, and cause backwater floods on the Yazoo and other tributaries.