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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Mississippi River Flooding
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.