Dump the Pumps!

The Final EIS for the Yazoo Pumps has been released. You can go on-line here to download the information.

The Corps has scheduled a public meeting (the only one) on the final EIS for November 29 at 7 pm at the Mayersville courthouse. PLEASE PLAN TO ATTEND IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.

If you cannot attend, please take action by following the instructions below.

Your action is very important. This project has the potential to negatively impact thousands of acres of important wetlands and cost taxpayers over $200,000,000 to construct and over $2,000,000 in maintenance on a yearly basis.

Please Take Action Today to stop this environmentally disastrous project.


Stop the Corps of Engineers from using your tax dollars to drain wetlands!

The Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) wants to spend $211 million of your tax dollars on a project that could drain and damage more than 200,000 acres of wetlands in the heart of the Mississippi River flyway, an area that contains some of the richest natural resources in the nation.

The Corps has recommended spending at least $211 million of your tax dollars to build the world’s largest hydraulic pumping plant in one of the most sparsely populated regions in the state of Mississippi. In a throwback to another era – and contrary to federal policy – the Yazoo Pumps would be used to drain wetlands and ultimately allow agribusiness to intensify production on marginal crop lands.

The Corps has released its final recommendation for the Yazoo Pumps, and we need your help today to put a stop to this wasteful and destructive project. Contact the Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of the Interior today and tell them to dump the Pumps!

Please go to the Camo Coalition website here and click on TAKE ACTION. The website will do the work for you by emailing each of the following when you click submit. Or, if you prefer, you may use the print option to mail to each recipient below.

Marvin Cannon
Vicksburg District of the Corps
Corps of Engineers
4155 Clay Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183-3435

Colonel Michael C. Wehr, District Engineer
Vicksburg District of the Corps
Corps of Engineers
4155 Clay Street
Vicksburg, MS 39183-3435

Mr. Stephen Johnson
Administrator
Environmental Protection Agency
Ariel Rios Building
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460

Mr. Dirk Kempthorne
Secretary
Department of Interior
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240

Mr. James Connaughton
Chairman
Council on Environmental Quality
722 Jackson Place, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20503

To read more on the subject, please click here .

You are not logged in or are not a member yet.
Please [sign up] or [login] and contact a decision maker about this issue.