Taxpayers for Common Sense submitted comments to the Army Corps of Engineers opposing their attempt to revive the fiscally irresponsible Yazoo Backwater Pumping Plant Project in Mississippi. As proposed, the Corps would construct the world’s largest hydraulic pumping station and severely damage 90,000 acres of wetlands all in order to increase crop production.
The Yazoo Backwater Pumps is a relic of times past. First authorized in the 1940s, the project is part of the Corps’ century-long effort to re-plumb the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The project was such a boondoggle it joined an “elite” club of projects receiving an EPA 404 veto from the Bush Administration in 2008. At an estimated cost of at least $1.9 billion, all at federal expense, it’s a project with no fiscal, environmental, or social benefit.
You can download the letter here or read it below.
Letter
TCS Letter Opposing Yazoo Pumps Boondoggle
Taxpayers cannot afford this zombie project
Taxpayers for Common Sense submitted comments to the Army Corps of Engineers opposing their attempt to revive the fiscally irresponsible Yazoo Backwater Pumping Plant Project in Mississippi. As proposed, the Corps would construct the world’s largest hydraulic pumping station and severely damage 90,000 acres of wetlands all in order to increase crop production.
The Yazoo Backwater Pumps is a relic of times past. First authorized in the 1940s, the project is part of the Corps’ century-long effort to re-plumb the Mississippi River and its tributaries. The project was such a boondoggle it joined an “elite” club of projects receiving an EPA 404 veto from the Bush Administration in 2008. At an estimated cost of at least $1.9 billion, all at federal expense, it’s a project with no fiscal, environmental, or social benefit.
You can download the letter here or read it below.
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