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NFC: Fw: April 22nd Deadline: Keep the Corps Out of the Big Sunflower River
Public comments needed by this Monday, April 22nd!
The Army Corps of Engineers wants to dredge 100 miles of
Mississippi's Big Sunflower River. Tell the Corps not to move forward
with this destructive project without fully evaluating the
environmental impacts and acceptable alternatives.
http://www.americanrivers.org/takeaction/
Please take action today and tell the Corps you are opposed to this
ill-conceived project for several reasons, including:
1) The Corps should prepare a Full EIS and examine a full range of
alternatives before proceeding.
2) Adverse environmental impacts are too great.
3) Flooding reduction, the project's purpose, will be minimal despite
enormous environmental cost.
4) The public and other federal agencies - including the Fish and
Wildlife Service and the Environmental Protection Agency - oppose
this project, due to the project's unacceptable environmental impacts.
5) Contaminated sediments such as DDT and toxaphene have not been
addressed (and in the case of toxaphene, not even mentioned!) in the
environmental assessment.
6) The Corps is trying to "spin" this project into a contaminated
sediment clean-up project similar to the Hudson River clean-up. This
is not the case.
Comments are due next Monday, April 22, 2002, so please act quickly
at http://www.americanrivers.org/takeaction/
More on the Big Sunflower, one of America's Most Endangered Rivers
http://www.americanrivers.org/bigsunflower2002/
The Army Corps of Engineers: the agency with a grip on our rivers
http://www.americanrivers.org/mostendangered/armycorps.htm
To talk to someone about this project, contact
Kelly Miller
American Rivers at
(202) 347-7550, ext. 3008
kmiller at amrivers_org
Thank you!
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