The USA Military Corps of Engineers (Corps) launched the Revised Draft Environmental Impression Assertion (RDEIS) for the Pearl River Basin, Mississippi, Federal Flood Danger Administration Challenge Commander’s Report and Environmental Impression Assertion.
The present RDEIS has included Options D1 and E1 into its proposal and has eradicated Various A1 from consideration. LWF requests that the Corps reject Possibility D1 and E1 (“One Lake”) and all comparable plans that dam and/or dredge the Pearl River. We urge the Corps to rethink Various A1.
As well as, LWF requests that the Corps conduct a “Downstream Impression Research” on the potential environmental results of Various A1, D1, and E1, on the Pearl River. As recognized within the Corps’ presentation of the RDEIS, the present research solely displays issues inside a ten-mile space of the venture. We really feel a extra complete research ought to be performed to guage issues additional downstream, significantly issues for wildlife, wildlife habitat, and water hydrology points in Louisiana. Lastly, LWF asks that the Corps observe by means of with the request that an extra public assembly on the venture be held in Washington Parish, Louisiana, as requested by Louisiana State Consultant Stephanie Hunter Berault.
Any plan that digs up the Pearl River could be ecologically devastating and encourage new growth that places extra individuals and property in hurt’s means. These plans would worsen Jackson’s flooding and ingesting water disaster, expose native and downstream communities to poisonous contamination, destroy a whole lot of acres of wildlife habitat, and alter freshwater flows important to the area’s necessary seafood and tourism economies. Taxpayers are on the hook to foot the invoice but the true prices of Various D1 and E1 proceed to be woefully underestimated. The Corps newest evaluation of D1 and E1 within the RDEIS reveals that the prices will skyrocket, in comparison with DEIS estimates.
Learn LWF’s letter of remark to the Corps HERE.
You possibly can ship in feedback to the Corps by August 18, 2025 HERE.
Learn LWF’s previous feedback on the proposed Pearl River venture HERE.
