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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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Time to Change the Flood Control Plan

Time to Change the Flood Control Plan

I testified about flooding on the Mississippi before the Mississippi River Commission in Greenville on April 18, 2018. Readers with properties on the river, its oxbow lakes, and tributaries may be surprised to learn why they flood.  It’s the bottlenecks.

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Mississippi River Commission Presentations

The engineering answer is simple. The politics aren’t. Here’s the story.

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Mississippi River Commission Testimony: Kelley Williams in Greenville Apr 2018

I think everyone here knows the Mississippi is flooding more.  But you might be surprised to know that it’s the worst in 400 years.  And that most of it is due to flood control projects. That’s right, flood control causes flooding.  According to research published in Nature this month.

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The Flood Arms Race

The Flood Arms Race

There is a flood arms race.  It could end in disaster.  It’s between the US Army Corps of Engineers and the Mississippi River.

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MS River Coarse Change Poster by Dr. Y. Jun Xu - Hydrologist for LSU

MS River Coarse Change Poster by Dr. Y. Jun Xu – Hydrologist for LSU

What would happen if the Mississippi River changed its coarse to the Atchafalaya? Dr. Xu’s poster gives an in-depth look at the MS River’s history, likelihood of a coarse change and the consequences.

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Flood Control Madness

Flood Control Madness

Have flood control projects actually made flooding worse?  Yes.  Floods are higher, longer, and more frequent than ever.  Despite the Corps’ Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries Project authorized in 1928.  Which the Corps says has prevented a trillion dollars of flood damage from levee failures that haven’t happened.

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