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Relocation to Restoration project planning in Pascagoula, MS

Healthy Gulf has participated on the technical advisory panel for a planning project in Pascagoula Mississippi that would help residents in the Cherokee Forest subdivision relocate and leave a neighborhood that has been afflicted by industrial air pollution and coastal storm surge flooding. The Relocation to Restoration or R2R planning for residents of Cherokee Forest

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One Lake will Severely Impact Downstream Communities on the Pearl River, Mississippi

This past February, the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Adam Telle, released a memo that apparently gave his blessing to a combination of two flood control alternatives, D-1 and E-1 for the Pearl River in Jackson, MS. The memo was not the required Record of Decision that begins the Corps of Engineers

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Louisiana’s First National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR)

The effort towards creating a National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR) in Louisiana is being hosted by LSU Sea Grant, and by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).  February saw the completion of nine town hall meetings by site selection committees across three regions of coastal Louisiana.

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Eubanks Creek Algae Bloom LeFleurs Bluff S.P. behind ballfields credit: PRK

Jackson Eubanks Creek Sewage Spill: Nutrient Pollution Implications for Pearl River “One Lake” Project

A September algae bloom on Eubanks Creek in Jackson, sparked by a sewage spill, shows what is happening on the Pearl River’s urban tributaries. The implications for the Rankin Hinds Drainage District’s One Lake plan are that nutrients from the urban creeks are easily captured in a wide, slow flowing lake section made by dredging and further damming the Pearl River. If Jackson’s sewage issues are not addressed, the lake can grow the same kind of harmful algae blooms as Eubanks Creek.

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