S. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker have joined an effort to push the Federal Emergency Management Agency to change the way flood risks are assessed in communities across the country. Cochran and Wicker, both Mississippi Republicans, are among 27 senators who recently sent a letter to FEMA administrator Craig Fugate asking that FEMA end its use of "without levee" modeling methods in evaluating the flood threat to an area as new maps are drawn. The method discounts levees and flood-control measures that are not certified by FEMA but offer some level of protection, they argue.
Mississippi's two senators are joining ranks with some Senate colleagues to push for changes in the way flood risks are assessed in local communities, marking the latest shot in an ongoing battle over flood maps. Sens. Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, both R-Miss., are among 27 senators who sent a letter last week to Craig Fugate, administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, asking that FEMA end its use of "without levee" modeling methods in evaluating the flood threat to an area as new maps are drawn. The method discounts levees and flood control measures that have not been certified by FEMA.
The Everglades ecosystem encompasses a system of diverse wetland landscapes that are hydrologically and ecologically connected across more than 200 miles from north to south and across 18,000 square miles of southern Florida. In 2000, the U.S. Congress authorized the Federal government, in partnership with the State of Florida, to embark upon a multi-decade, multi-billion dollar Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) to further protect and restore the remaining Everglades ecosystem while providing for other water-related needs of the region. CERP involves modification of the existing network of drainage canals and levees that make up the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control Project. Since 2000, much progress has been made. Construction has begun on the first generation o...
Port of Memphis officials say the McKellar Lake harbor could be in jeopardy because of the Mississippi River's efforts to cut across Presidents Island. Port and city officials are urging congressional approval of a funding measure that would allow the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to move forward with repairs of levees, banks and flood-control structures damaged by epic flooding this spring.
... New Orleans and the Gulf of Mexico, and levees alongside the channel and around the city. . When ... plaintiffs, all suing the United States for flood damages. One group of seven plaintiffs went to tri.... The Corps outlined two erosion-control plans in the 1984 report. The 1988 report conclude...
During the late spring flooding this year, the federally sponsored project known as the Mississippi River & Tributaries project prevented an estimated $62 billion in damages throughout the Mississippi River Valley. Commissioned and constructed in the years after the Great Flood of 1927 by the Mississippi River Commission and the Corps of Engineers, the MR&T is a system of levees, floodways and backwater areas along with other flood control features that stretch from Cape Girardeau, Mo., to the Gulf of Mexico. It stands as one of the most successful civil works projects our nation has ever produced, and over the years has saved lives, communities and billions of dollars in property damage.
More than 1,000 acres of wetlands and meadows along creeks and rivers in the five-county Milwaukee metropolitan area are being enlisted in a regional effort to prevent flooding and reduce the need for building costly levees and other flood control structures in the future. In the past six years, the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District has spent $8.8 million to acquire 27 properties and seven conservation easements, preventing development of open space in river floodplains from Mequon and Germantown to Brookfield, Franklin and Oak Creek, according to Kevin Shafer, the district's executive director.
Season opener: The Mid-South Junior Bass Club held its first tournament of the 2012 season recently on Bay Spring Lake near Booneville. Eighteen adult/youth teams competed for top honors in the tournament with the following results - Youth ages 6-14, Seth Russell, 13, Guntown, 13.30 pounds; Nolan Morlok, 13, Hernando, 10.79 and Drew Keough, 14, Collierville, 7.83; Youth ages 15-18, Garrett Riles, 16, Potts Camp, 17.33; Ty Jobe, 16, Lewisburg, 14.66 and Nathan Morlok, 15, Hernando, 11.84. Adult big fish - Chris Morlok, Hernando, 6.38 ($150); David Jobe, Lewisburg, 5.64 and Shane Cox, Guntown, 3.37. The next Mid-South Junior Bass Club tournament will be April 14 on Horseshoe Lake. For additional information go to www.kidsbassin.com or call Chris Morlok at (901) 604-6274 Project fundings: ...
... approximately 460 miles of mainline levees. The district is engaged in hundreds of projects a...
A federal appeals court said that conservation groups challenging the adequacy of flood control levees face a high technical hurdle. Great Rivers Habitat Alliance and the Adolphus A. Busch Revocable Living Trust had challenged the Federal Emergency Management Agency's approval of the Lakeside 370 levee in St. Peters. But the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Thursday the groups failed to bring up any new scientific information for FEMA to consider.
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