EPA Vetoes Yazoo Project

The day after disastrous flooding of New Orleans was sidestepped, the EPA has vetoed a long-running project proposal for moving large amounts of water in Mississippi. After receiving more than 47,000 public , a majority of them against a proposal to build the world’s largest water pump, the EPA vetoed a huge Army Corps of Engineers flood control project.

The project would pump up to 14,000 cubic feet per second from land along Mississippi’s Yazoo River during major rain events. While that would help farmers in the flood plain. It would plus, according to conservationists, advocacy groups, and even the EPA, create environmental

impacts too severe to produce it worthwhile.The area has some of the world’s richest aquatic and wetland resources. The EPA additionally cited the project’s $220 million construction costs and $2 million annual operational costs in its release of the decision.

The project, which has been around since 1941, threatened to harm endangered species, destroy wetlands, and harm water quality in the area. While flood control is clearly an fundamental part of life– particularly along the Mississippi River– we can hope that a compromise can be reached that will benefit both the human and more-than-human residents along the Yazoo River.

[Source] Leslie Wolcott

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