healthy waters/ dead zone

On April 7th the Pearl River in Louisiana and Mississippi was named to American Rivers’ list of the ten Most Endangered Rivers in the United States because of plans to create another dam and lake on the river in Jackson, Mississippi. A two-county drainage District has submitted a feasibility study and Environmental Impact Statement for […]

Gulf Restoration Network held its fourth annual “Jackson for A Healthy Gulf” event at Hal and Mal’s Restaurant in the Capitol City last Thursday night. Despite a cold front moving through Jackson, with rain and bad traffic near party time, twenty-five people attended to hear about GRN’s Mississippi work over the last year. I summarized

The St. Tammany Parish Council hosted the 2015 Pearl River Basin Watershed Conference in their chambers in Mandeville on March 17th. This was a meeting led by the Louisiana and Mississippi offices of the National Weather Service (NWS). There were very good presentations and discussions of Pearl River flood forecasting and emergency management operations between

Big Dead Zone news out of Iowa. The Des Moines Water Works has decided to move forward with a lawsuit against three Iowa Counties for the pollution they are dumping into Des Moines’ drinking water. This is the same pollution that causes the Gulf Dead Zone. Here is a statement from the Mississippi River Collaborative:Tuesday’s

Artesian Utility Company, Inc., responsible for treating the sewage that is produced from the Lake Ramsay subdivision, continues to discharge pollutants, including fecal matter, into the Little Tchefuncte River on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana. Over a year ago, GRN and the Little Tchefuncte River Association filed suit against Artesian for failure to

Oysters inspected. Photo credit: MDEQ.Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant recently announced the formation of the Governor’s Oyster Council to help the coast’s oyster industry restore a fishery that has been hurt and diminished over just a few years by hurricanes, the BP drilling disaster and its aftermath, and oyster reef mortality due to salinity changes. The

If there is one thing that the Corps of Engineers loves to do is continue resurrecting projects that have been shown unnecessary or environmentally harmful. Maybe that is a little uncharitable, as the Corps does do a lot of great work, but it is frustrating to see that a project that we and our partners