The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to move forward with a controversial proposal to dam part of the Pearl River near Jackson, Mississippi for flood control and economic development, even as Louisiana environmental groups and public officials say potential downstream effects have yet to be studied.
Adam Telle, the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, issued a memorandum on Jan. 31 directing the Corps to move forward with a “combination” of two different proposals for the project, nicknamed “One Lake,” according to a memorandum posted on the Corps’ website on Friday afternoon.
One of those proposals includes building a weir near Interstate 20 in Mississippi that would form a lake that could serve recreation purposes, though there were few additional details immediately available on Friday about what the combination plan would look like…