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Midwest governors hear flood brief from Army Corps

April 13, 2021 IARN  Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds recently joined governors from Missouri and Nebraska to discuss the recovery progress from the devastating Missouri River flooding of 2019. Reynolds, Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts and Missouri Governor Mike Parson were briefed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at a joint meeting in Council Bluffs. It’s the fourth time the three governors have met on the topic since the damage took place two years ago. Governor Reynolds said the southwest Iowa town of Hamburg recently signed an agreement with the Corps to raise the city’s “Ditch 6 Levee” eight feet. The governor noted that the city and other shareholders utilized the Water Resources Development Act, allowing non-federal funding to improve the levee.

Will the Yazoo Pumps ever get finished?

The Yazoo Backwater Project which will help prevent flooding in a vulnerable area of the Mississippi Delta has a history stretching back to its origins in the Flood Control Act of 1941 Three of the project’s four components were completed by 1978 and are in place north of Vicksburg where the Yazoo River flows into the Mississippi River. There are levees to keep backwater from entering the South Delta, a connecting channel to bring water to a pumping plant and drainage structures that are opened or closed depending on water levels. The final piece is a set of 12 pumps that form a pump station that will evacuate heavy rainfall and prevent Delta flooding when the gates are closed against floodwaters from the Mississippi River.

Coastal News Today | FL - Brian Mast, Gayle Harrell, Toby Overdorf Want Corps of Engineers to Eliminate Discharges from Lake Okeechobee

“The Army Corps has determined that discharges from Lake Okeechobee to the St. Lucie are unnecessary for flood control and that eliminating these discharges can actually be beneficial to water supply, the environment and more,” Mast said. “The Army Corps must not settle for incremental progress but rather should take the bold action needed to protect Floridians and stop government-sanctioned poisoning.” The modeling presented by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and South Florida Water Management District over the last several months proves that it is possible to eliminate discharges in the operational band while also benefiting performance for water supply and the other Congressionally-authorized project purposes.

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