Environmentalists Win Halt to Missouri Flood Control Project
WASHINGTON, DC, September 17, 2007 (ENS) - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must stop construction on the St. John's Bayou/New Madrid Floodway Project in Missouri, a federal court in Washington ruled Friday. The controversial flood control project is located on the west bank of the Mississippi River in the "bootheel" of southeastern Missouri.
Judge James Robertson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with two of the nation's largest nonprofit groups, Environmental Defense and the National Wildlife Federation, who filed the lawsuit in 2004 challenging the Corps' Environmental Impact Statements for the project.
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