Citing the EPA’s decision to restore its veto of the Yazoo Backwater Area Pumps Project, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has withdrawn its support for the project, which would have been the final piece of a massive federal flood protection system that has been in the making for 80 years.
The Corps, along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, announced its decision in a Dec. 15 notice filed in federal court.