Mike Blackwell of McHenry Ms. , a passionate advocate for Red Creek, passed away on May first after emergency heart surgery. In his 7 decades of time on earth he explored and fished on Red Creek for more than 50 years. In his retirement, he lived in his camp on the Creek in Jackson County …
This annual Water Resources Conference is hosted by Mississippi State University’s Water Resources Research Institute and provides one of the main ways to keep up with groundwater and surface water issues in the state. It was held at the Jackson Hilton Hotel April 11-12.Much of the conference’s emphasis was on consumptive groundwater use in the …
In Mississippi alone, there are 98 discharge permits along the Pearl River from Hinds County downstream to Pearl River County closer to the river’s mouth. The Pearl is the Mississippi-Louisiana boundary in its lower reaches, and Louisiana manages a number of permits on its side of the Pearl River as well. In Mississippi, permits required …
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On Tuesday January 24th in Lucedale, Mississippi, the Mobile District Corps of Engineers and consulting company AECOM hosted a scoping meeting for the Pascagoula River Drought Resiliency Project Environmental Impact Statement. The Mobile Corps District’s Deputy Commander, Col. Landon Ramey spoke to the crowd of 200 about what the Corps needed from the attendees. He …
Big Cedar Creek Lake Project Scoping Meeting Lucedale Read More »
The Pascagoula River is Mississippi’s ecological jewel. Most of the river’s main tributaries are contained within state borders, and its health reflects the health of the streams that flow through the state’s southeastern quarter. It was ranked with other rivers in the northern hemisphere on their degree of channel and flow alteration by the journal, …
Tarnishing the Jewel: Damming the Pascagoula’s Tributaries Read More »
The Pearl River’s flow of fresh water moderates salinities in tidal waters that nourish the Hancock County Marshes in Mississippi and the Biloxi Marshes of Louisiana. The Biloxi Marsh is that big chunk of St. Bernard Parish that sticks up to the north, lying due south of Waveland, Mississippi. Bayou Biloxi runs through part of …
The Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) is the omnibus Congressional bill that funds the Army Corps of Engineers in their work on the nation’s waterways. A 2016 version of WRDA is moving through Congress now and has passed the U.S. Senate.Two sections of the Act pertain to projects on the Pearl River in Louisiana and …
Good and Bad News for the Pearl River in Congress’ 2016 WRDA Bill Read More »
On July 7th WLBT, Channel 3 in Jackson, Mississippi presented a feature about flooding on the Pearl River titled “A River Runs Through It.” The segment ran on the 10 p.m. news as a “3 On Your Side” special report to update the currently proposed project to dredge and widen the Pearl River though part …
Chrissy Schuengel lived on Bayou LaCroix road in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi for more than twenty years and had never seen her back yard flood severely during normal rainfall. That changed in 2007 when Hancock County Development LLC began cutting drainage canals through land north of her property line and interfering with the natural drainage …
Nine Years Later: City of Stennis Wetland Restoration Read More »
This month, the Mississippi Legislature wrapped up one of the most acrimonious regular sessions of the past few years. The fighting, arguing and ugliness were open and constant, and the state is a little more broke at the end of the session than when it started. The majority proudly passed and enacted tax cuts even …