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 by Adam Lynch
November 9, 2009
At a meeting this morning, the Levee Board again pushed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to justify the $4 million the Corps has said it will cost just to revisit the feasibility and costs of two controversial Lakes plans…
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by Adam Lynch
October 21, 2009
Legislators say the chances of the Mississippi Legislature approving funding to build levees in Jackson and surrounding counties are slim, especially since it has taken so long to reach consensus on how to mitigate flooding along the Pearl River.
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 by Adam Lynch
October 7, 2009
Jackson insurance agent Hank Aiken warns that some home-owner insurance policies could triple in price if the Federal Emergency Management Agency changes local flood maps without the benefit of a final flood-control plan for the Pearl River. The Pearl experienced…
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 by Adam Lynch
September 30, 2009
Would-be Two Lakes developer John McGowan reacted strongly this week to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers statement that it was not taking seriously his or any other plan to create lakes around the Pearl River, preferring a comprehensive levees…
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by Adam Lynch
September 30, 2009
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Monday threatened to withhold certification of the incomplete levee system between Hinds and Rankin counties, potentially raising insurance rates for homes along the Pearl River in those counties.
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 by Adam Lynch
September 28, 2009
Read the JFP's full Pearl River archive here.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers today made clear its favor for a levees-only plan for the control of flooding along the Pearl River between Hinds and Rankin…
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 by Adam Lynch
September 23, 2009
Northside Sun Publisher Wyatt Emmerich declared in a recent column that the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District should appoint Jackson oilman John McGowan to head the board's technical advisory committee. The committee will work with the U.S.…
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 by Adam Lynch
August 28, 2009
Hinds County is looking to dispute a $237,784 severance fee it owes the Pearl River Basin Development District. The state Legislature rendered the county’s participation in the multi-county district optional in 2001, and several counties have since jumped ship, including…
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 by Adam Lynch
August 25, 2009
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has told the local levee board that it has to agree on a flood-control plan for the Pearl River by the end of September—and is warning that two controversial development plans are likely already…
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 by Adam Lynch
August 20, 2009
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has finally released its 2007 Pearl River Watershed Feasibility Report to the public. The flood-prevention study has been long under wraps by the corps under the argument that it was in a "deliberative…
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by Adam Lynch
July 15, 2009
Jackson Realtor Bob Ridgway is president of a 100-year-old exclusive hunting and fishing spot about a half mile from where County Line Road dead ends at Old Canton Road. Mule Jail Club has an eight-person membership that goes back to…
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by Adam Lynch
June 24, 2009
John McGowan and McGowan Working Partners laud the city of Jackson’s economic benefit of the Two Lakes plan, a proposed project that would dam the Pearl River and create a series of islands between Hinds and Rankin counties.
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by Adam Lynch
June 17, 2009
Also see: JFP Archive on Pearl River, Two Lakes
Publisher's Note: Whose River Is it?
The wetland area just east of Jackson has seen better times.
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by Adam Lynch
June 10, 2009
The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks remains strangely silent and without comment on two plans to partially inundate a state park stagger drunkenly forward.
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by Adam Lynch
June 2, 2009
Pre-historic Native American settlements are among the obstacles faced by any plan to inundate the wetlands along the Pearl River, including the already-controversial “Two Lakes” project. Pam Lieb, chief archeologist for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, told the…
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