• Delaware - Delaware River Deepening Dumped Again
  The Delaware Riverkeeper Network (DRN) is preventing the Corps from deepening the Delaware River from 40 to 45 feet. The project would cause toxic dredge spoils; irreparable harm to fish and wildlife, and a 2002 GAO report that states that the Corps’ then-economic findings were "based on miscalculations, invalid assumptions, and outdated information.” In May 2008, the GAO decided to review the project once again.
  
  • Delaware River Deepening Dumped Again, Report, March 2007.
• The Delaware Riverkeeper Network
• GAO Agrees to Updated Review of Delaware Deepening, Press Release, May 19, 2008.

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• Idaho, Oregon and Washington - Breaching 4 Lower Snake River Dams The Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition is working to get the Corps to breach 4 dams on the lower Snake River in Washington State. The Corps manages these dams for power generation and barge traffic at the expense of threatened native salmon, only 1% of which can reach their native spawning grounds to reproduce. The coalition sued the Corps and National Marine Fisheries Service (among others) on June 17, 2008, charging that the NMFS did not use the best available science in its salmon recovery plan.
  • Coalition Takes Legal Action to Save Endangered Salmon, June 16, 2008
  • Latest dam plan already under fire from groups, AP Erik Robinson, The Columbian May 6, 2008
    

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• Alabama - Defeating the Duck River Dam...Again
  Alabama Rivers Alliance (ARA) sued the Corps on Sept. 5, 2007 to stop the construction of a dam on Alabama's Duck River. The Corps-issued section 404 permit that ARA is challenging is a re-issuance of a flawed 2000 corps-issued permit that a federal district judge vacated based on the proposed dam's cumulative impacts on water quality and downstream flows.
  • Preventing the Duck River Dam Website Resources
  • Alabama Rivers Alliance
    
    
• Louisiana - Why Spend $800 Million to Expand the Industrial Canal Lock When Traffic is Declining?
  The Port of New Orleans and corps have argued that the Industrial Canal Lock should be replaced and enlarged, despite declining shipping traffic and changes in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Citizens Against Widening the Industrial Canal is taking a lead role in defeating this project.
  • Report: Failure to Hold Water - Economics of the New Lock Project for the Industrial Canal, New Orleans (December 2007)
• "New study rejects canal lock plans," The Times-Picayune, 12/5/07
  

• Mississippi - Saving 200,000 Acres of Wetands!
  The Yazoo Pumps project would damage up to an astonishing 200,000 acres of wetlands by using massive hydraulic pumps to transfer 6 million gallons of water per minute from the Mississippi Delta into the Yazoo River. On August 31, 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a Clean Water Act Sect. 404 Veto of this project to halt this project for good.
  • EPA's Final Determination to veto the project, August 30, 2008.
  • American River's Yazoo Advocacy website has fact sheets, the corps EIS, a scientist letter, editorials, an independent economic analysis, and other materials.
  • Corps Reform Network Sign On Letter in support of EPA's veto, which was submitted as an official public comment on May 5, 2008.
  • Comments by a Coalition of Organizations supporting EPA's veto of the Yazoo Pumps project submitted to EPA on May 5.
  • Jackson Free Press News Article from April 23, 2008 reporting on EPA's April 17th Public Hearing in Vicksburg MS, where hundreds showed up in support of EPA's Veto to 'Dump the Pumps.'
    
    
• Missouri - Court Orders Corps to Halt Construction
  Senator Bond (R-MO) is trying to circumvent a Sept. 14, 2007 U.S. District Court decision that ordered the corps to halt construction of the St. Johns Bayou/New Madrid Floodway project.
  • Nov/Dec 2007 CRN eNews Update
  • Legislative Text of Rider
  • Fact Sheet
  • Letter from Environmental Groups Opposing Bond Rider, July 16, 2007
  • U.S. District Judge Robertson’s Decision, Sept. 14, 2007