re: Mississippi River Rising

Is it happening this time??

Are y’all on the new levee? Corp of Engineers coming through our place and dredging ~300 acres of CRP to rebuild. Everyone around us getting screwed too.

Where is this? I'd guess north of the big bend at Goldmans?

Cat Island roads have 2’ of water on them, expecting 6’

@Sheperd88:

LINK for dredging plans in your area, shows timeline and limits of work scope.

I know, but last yr it was the logging that messed up the deer, tbis yr the Corps dredging, next yr...?

Thanks brotha, sent you an email. I believe their plans are to hop over us and go south first then come back to us in a year or two. Unsure why, we actually have an old levee system that’s not in use, we offered the dirt to them for free and even to survey it for them at our expense so they wouldn’t take our CRP (given that my grandmother lives off that income). They were completely unwilling to work with us until we got in contact with the head of the levee board and seems like we may have an agreement, although they won’t put anything in writing.

Side note, there have been several folks to file suit against them in this regards but to no avail. One fella from Natchez has spent north of $1mm in legal fees and was awarded $400k in his suit only to have it appealed and lost 2 weeks later.

Conservation Re-Plant. Gov will pay to have trees planted in old farming wetland. You’ll get annuity payment ($150/acre in our area) for 18 years. You can cut and re-do after 18 years. Something of that nature.