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 Stories About: Army Corps of Engineers AND Mississippi River AND Missouri AND news AND wetlands
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Army Corps must halt work on destructive Missouri river project |
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17 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 3:30 PM on 17 Sep 2007 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers was ordered this weekend to cease work on a Mississippi River flood-control project in Missouri that would have cut the river off from its last remaining floodplain, devastated tens of thousands of acres of wetlands, and, um, not controlled flooding. Ordering the Corps to remove any part of the project built so far and restore the area to its historic c ... |
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| Topics: Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi River, Missouri, news, wetlands (all these topics) |
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