Pump or not to pump?
by Wally Northway
Published: February 14,2010
Tags: flooded farmland, pumps, rainfall, Yazoo Backwater Project
Controversial pump could have saved farmers thousands of acres of flooded farmland last year As the proposed Yazoo Backwater Project, aimed at controlling floods in the South Delta, works its way through the legal system, farmers are calculating their losses last year caused by the record rainfall. Would the project’s proposed pumping station have saved [...]
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