Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith announced her support for the Yazoo pumps project in a letter addressed to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers:
I am writing to express my strong support for the Proposed Plan outlined in the Draft Supplement No. 2 to the 1982 Yazoo Area Pump Project Final Environmental Impact Statement.
The Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) prepared by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) clearly demonstrates that the new Proposed Plan will not only protect lives, homes, and property from catastrophic flooding, but also provide significant benefits to wetlands, terrestrial, aquatic, and wildlife resources throughout this large area of Mississippi. As you know, the significant flooding the area has experienced in nine out of the last 10 years has affected homes, businesses, roads and bridges, other infrastructure, and the environmental resources associated with area’s vast agricultural and forested lands. Improved flood protection that will come with having the Yazoo Backwater pumps in place will benefit all area residents, including low-income and minority populations, and bring economic improvements to the state and the nation.
Actual flood events over the past 10 years, combined with new environmental data, has proven that only good can come from construction of the pumps. Concerns expressed about previous project proposals are no longer valid. Given that approximately 55 inches of annual rainfall sustain nearly 90 percent of area wetlands rather than inundation caused by backwater flooding, the slow and gradual removal of floodwaters will have no impact on wetlands. Further, the proposed installation of 34 groundwater wells, along with thousands of acres of reforestation, will improve environmental flows 9,321 acres of streams, and achieve net gains across all environmental categories.
Improved flood protection for the Yazoo Backwater Area is long overdue, and I commend the Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District for working diligently to release the Draft SEIS for public review. I look forward to the Corps releasing the Final SEIS and signing a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Yazoo Area Pump Project as swiftly as possible.
10 comments:
This letter might be the most work she has put in since being appointed to office. Go ahead and call it a year Cindy, you've made us all proud.
John Kerry isn't buying this boondoggle,it will never get funded. Thank God.
Billions of dollars to build and provide upkeep to protect how much farmland? Call me a hater but who does these cost/benefit analysis?
You don’t actually think she wrote that letter do you?
I thought experts determined that it would be a waste?
" John Kerry "
Vietnam Purple Heart recipient because of a firecracker in a rice pile "popped" . . . and singed a few hairs on his buttocks. (or something like that).
How this creepy dude scored a rich woman that had a ketchup empire is beyond me.
Anyway.
I doubt he's even aware of the Mississippi Delta . . . much less flood control projects within the Delta.
Farm Welfare Queen lobbies for More Farm Welfare!
The government could buy up every property in the South Delta for less than the cost of the pumps.
As the new Climate Czar it would have to get Kerry's approval. BTW he married well and could probably buy the South Delta if he wanted.
6:25 the one wanting to buy the South Delta has already opined his opposition of the pumps. The more it floods, the cheaper Van Devender can buy it up. Hide and watch. When all of those hardwoods start dying after being in water all summer who do you think just bought the Vicksburg mill?
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