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How much are the pumps supposed to cost?

Actual cost 150 million. They’ve bookmarked I believe 300 for other stuff, buying land and rights and wetlands. Then again everyone has to get a little cut but 150 is what I’ve heard the last 4 months. If they started today it’d take some 4 yrs to build.

This year alone the damage is, from what I’ve read, exceeding 600 million.

teul2 wrote:

stang67 wrote: If one claims high MS River levels are “man made,” well OK, that’s not one I want to debate.

It is a debate I have thought of before.
Imagine if you will, no levees, zero, none, nada from Venice to the Canadian border in the MS river system as a whole. Wouldn't the river levels be lower if the water had historic flood planes to back out into? Isn't the delta it self as a whole a historic MS river flood plane?

I’ve always wondered that same question and can’t help but think it would be less than what it is now if the river allowed to go to its natural boundaries from one end to the other.

I can’t see the government paying to restore the land to its original condition all up and down the length of the Mississippi floodplain. So I don’t believe there’s any other solution than to put the pumps in since the whole system in the south Delta was designed around the pumps.

Not natural boundary exactly..............actually the 1882 flood map would be closer to natural conditions..
I will try to find it but it did cover the ENTIRE Ms delta to the bluff hills.