Jackson Jambalaya

Those living in Pearl river flood prone areas should get the message.

Government is NOT going to take the steps necessary and invest in flood control.

You are on your own. Government doesn't give a shit.

@10;48

Serious question. Exactly what "flood control" steps could the government take ?

Actually, it is flood control being performed by the government. Controlling the amount/level of water in the reservoir keeps the dam from failing and flooding much more of Jackson than would otherwise be flooded by the controlled release of water from the spillway after extraordinary precipitation events.

If you mean the government preventing people from building houses in a flood plain, well, I think a little more personal responsibility and “buyer beware” should “control.”

Sen. Roger "the RINO" Wicker was on WLBT yesterday pushing "1 Lake." Must be some palm grease in there.

@12:07

100% correct. I have yet heard it adequately explained how One Lake would control flooding but you can dig just a little and get the list of it's "affluent" backers...many of whom just happen to own land that would benefit financially from this boondoggle getting built.

At every instance, developers, for personal gain, push building more and more structures and pavement in drainage areas, making flooding worse. The fools pushing for building homes in the shadows of a dam during this age are buffoons. Revisit the flood out in California where the cubic outflow was just the same as here recently. Look at Harvey in Houston, where developers sold thousands and thousands of homes above Corps reservoirs in the planned flood plains, with impunity. Then Harvey flooded them and the homeowners bleat about "GubMint." It was the developers getting GubMint waivers and counting on taxpayer subsidized flood insurance to cover the inevitable.

Look out on Lakeland, as ticky tacky spec homes go up in the Pelahatchie flood plain. The Rez continues to allow sprawl. Out of the PRVWSD area, more and more homes are being built up stream of the tributaries, increasing runoff.

The 3rd gen dweebs of Jackson developers are yet again looking for more GubMint handouts to the Rich to build problems that other taxpayers will first subsidize in construction, and then pay for the inevitable losses, after years and years of taxpayer subsidized flood insurance.

The rich get richer. The poor get by.

It's the middle class who are screwed by the Rich all day long, courtesy of our Dems and RINO establishment. Both ends against the Middle. DC and Wall Street in a nutshell.

BRAVO to all posters. . .You are ALL making very good points here!

Thought some accolades should be given today because sometimes people post comments to stories that make absolutely no sense whatsoever. I may even be guilty to that from time to time.

So, isn’t damming the Pearl River to create the “one lake” just like damming it the first time to create the Rez? Being from the delta, I learned that flood control is all about screwing folks down stream. Down stream from Jackson is already receiving the city sewage so may as well flood’em.

Wicker really should have pushed One Lake harder before the Beef Plant debacle and KiOR.

The of average intelligence, blue-collar conservatives are not even dumb enough to blindly support these schemes any longer.

No.

The reservoir was built for recreational purpose and has to be managed for flood control. It was not a flood mitigating system in it's intention.

One Lake is a mitigation system first and it mitigates flooding downstream as well by spreading the release from the reservoir over time, when necessary.

Damnit 12:07 PM, do you lurk and look for opportunities, even at inopportune times, to use the term "RINO" and "palm grease" in every post????? Geeze!!!!
Senator Wicker is a true Republican. It's you wingnuts that are RINOs! Make your own party and get out of ours!
I'm not a huge fan of either, but it was refreshing to see a white, Republican U.S. Senator alongside an African American, Democrat City Mayor. Point being, that's how things used to work. That's how things get done. Stop drawing lines in the sand!

@12:34

One Lake works because the water level of the system will be lower (in relation to elevation) because the amount of water discharged from the reservoir will be spread out over an area thereby lowering the height of the Pearl as compared to now, using levees.

Now, as discharge from the reservoir goes up, the level in between the levees rises vertically and stops drainage from the creeks in Jackson eventually backing up into said creeks. With One Lake, that same amount of water would be spread horizontally across the lake, lessening the vertical rise.

This also slows (in time) the discharge down the Pearl system and spreads the event over a longer time, which lowers the flooding downstream

Make your own party and get out of ours!

You seem to forget that until recently your service was as a reliable Blue Dog Democrat.

Feel free to purge all those you despise from your GOP, you'll never win another election without them.

The reservoir was built for recreational purpose ...

In May 1958 it was sold to the public, and to the bond market, as economic development and flood control.

FACT.

Not really.

Jackson needed water to expand. It could either build the Rez or pipe it in from the Big Black River. It would cost $25 million either way at the time.

One alternative would generate property taxes, economic development, etc. The other one on its own would not (not counting the enterprise fund).

@ 12:34

So that means the water in One lake will have to be drastically lowered occasionally to hold all of this flood water. So hypothetically if you built a pier in One Lake at it's normal level (whatever that is) then certain times of the year your pier could be high and dry and far remove from the water for extended periods. Now do you really believe all of these proposed developments are going for this ? AND tell us more about the bridges and roads that will have to be raised when this lake is built AT TAXPAYERS EXPENSE. Can you say MONEY PIT ?

SB 1724

Pearl River Valley Water Supply District Act

Section 2

@ 3:46 PM what is your solution for Pearl flooding in the metro?

3:46

No.

The level of One Lake would stay the same, sans a flood event. Because it would use a weir design.

In the event of increased discharge, the level would rise but, again, the amount of vertical rise is substantially lessened through overall surface area as compared to the small channel created between levees.

Geez there are a lot of idiots here.