A coalition of environmental scored a victory this month, when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers canceled an expensive, and controversial, flood control project.
The Associated Press reports that U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has canceled the $450 million Yazoo Pumps flood control project planned in Mississippi for the flatlands between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
Environmental groups, including American Rivers, the National Audubon Society, the Sierra Club, Healthy Gulf, and Earthjustice, sued the Army Corps to delay the Yazoo Pumps Project. The aforementioned environmental groups put out a press release to celebrate the project's cancelation and describe the basis for their legal challenge.
The Yazoo Pumps would have drained 14,000 cubic-feet-per-second of floodwaters from farmland in the area, but the environmental group argued that the plan would leave most local communities vulnerable. "Corps data shows only 17% of the backwater would receive any flood relief from the Pumps," according to the press release.
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