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Upper Amite River reservoir: $500 million to $2 billion, unfunded. A big dam with a lake somewhere in East Feliciana and St. Helena parishes or partially in Mississippi. Earlier version proposed ...
Building a large, multibillion dollar reservoir somewhere in St. Helena and East Feliciana parishes or even southern Mississippi ... project for Amite River dredging would counteract that impact ...
The Upper Mississippi River has been designated the No. 1 "most endangered" river in the United States for 2020 by American Rivers, a nonprofit environmental group based in Washington, D.C. The ...
threatening work on invasive species and other Mississippi River issues "Celebrate the Mississippi," hosted by the Upper Mississippi River chapter of the Izaak Walton League, of which Marking is a ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Communities along the Upper Mississippi River scrambled Wednesday as the always-massive river swelled to near-record levels, forcing some to evacuate while others ...
The upper Mississippi River is a heavily used commercial corridor. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, an average of 2,200 commercial vessels annually pass through Lock and Dam 7 at La ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released spending plans that include an $829.1 million investment in lock and dam modernization projects along the upper Mississippi River with funding made ...
ALTON The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District, in partnership with the Wood River Drainage and Levee District, ...
Dawn came Sunday with a steady drizzle as Jackson, Mississippi, braced for the the most severe flooding the area has seen in nearly four decades. By 7:15 a.m. local time, the Pearl River ...