Mississippi Business Journal » Yazoo Backwater Project http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 05:01:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Panel sides with EPA over Yazoo Pump; board mulls another appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/#comments Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:18:00 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=53561 NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court panel sided yesterday with the Environmental Protection Agency over its 2008 veto of a $220 million flood control project near the Yazoo River in the south Mississippi Delta. >> RELATED: EPA admits it has no experts on Yazoo Pump Project. The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners sued the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/03/07/judge-sides-with-epa-over-yazoo-pump-board-mulls-another-appeal/feed/ 1 Pump or not to pump? http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/14/pump-or-not-to-pump/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pump-or-not-to-pump http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/14/pump-or-not-to-pump/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:01:17 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=19124 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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