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.
Featured Work
Black Swans and Mudberg
Bigger Pie Forum Projects
Mississippi River Flooding
Consumer Advocate
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.
The Corps vs Mother Nature
We just want the Corps to do its job and speed the floods — all the way to the Gulf.
The Morganza Spillway and the Maginot Line
The Morganza Spillway is supposed to keep the Mississippi River out of Baton Rouge. The US Army Corps of Engineers built it after the epic flood of 1927. It is part of the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project (MR&TP) that’s supposed to protect against another epic flood. But the MR&TP hasn’t been tested by an epic flood. It could be a Maginot Line.
Dereliction of Duty
H.R. McMaster’s 1997 book, Dereliction of Duty, exposed our feckless losing strategy in the Viet Nam War disaster. We didn’t fight to win. McMaster says President Johnson and Secretary of Defense McNamara micromanaged the war to elect and keep Johnson in power. Their strategy of limited response and constraining rules of engagement put our military on…