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Judge blames Army Corps of Engineers for Midwestern flooding
Source: The HILL
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A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Army Corps of Engineers was responsible for recurring flooding in four states that caused more than $300 million in damages.
The ruling by Judge Nancy Firestone states that flooding in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa "was caused by and was the foreseeable result" of the Army Corps of Engineers' management of the Missouri River, The Associated Press reported.
The ruling came in response to a lawsuit filed in 2014 that argued that the Corps deprived people of their land without compensation, and that, beginning in 2004, the Corps began putting more emphasis on restoring ecosystems for threatened and endangered species.
In turn, the lawsuit argued, the Corps focused less on the issue of flood control.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/378514-judge-blames-army-corps-of-engineers-for-midwestern-flooding?amp&__twitter_impression=true
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Judge blames Army Corps of Engineers for Midwestern flooding (Original Post)
laserhaas
Mar 2018
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Nitram
(22,755 posts)1. The US Army Corps of Engineers is underpaid and understaffed.
their authority is being attacked by numerous lawsuits by capitalists who think profits are more important than wetlands and drinkable water.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)3. It was a 1000 year flood.
There was enough water being held back that if one of the four dams along the Missouri had failed, it would have flood 30 miles each side of the river.
I was at Gavin's when the gates we're opened. It was mind boggling
Everyone's first reaction on seeing headlines like this should be "do they have enough money and resources to fulfill their mission" and "are the profitizers and privatizers on the attack".
Chances are that after years of puke underfunding and selling out the answers will be "no" to the first and "yes" to the second.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,075 posts)2. But still, they built in designated flood plains...
... eom.