(09-11-2022, 08:18 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(09-11-2022, 01:32 AM)p_rushing Wrote: The 2 rivers are 50 miles apart. Flooding affects both and low lying areas between them are affected. If you have pumps to remove water from the water table 50 miles away, it will help the to lower the water table from the area that shares the same aquifer system.

It wouldn't fix their clean water pumps but it could have helped keep the flooding from happening that caused the pumps to fail. The same problems that affect the pearl River also affect the Mississippi River. No one can do anything to fix the flooding issues because the EPA won't allow it, someone will sue because some animal needs all the water downstream, or some business lobbies to stop it so they aren't affected.

I don't know which is the correct thing to do to stop the flooding but the city clean water pumps are their own responsibility and they continued to not spend the money needed there.

Now the state is back to having no solutions. Trump got approval to fix flooding on one River and would have then set precedent to help with the flooding downstream from the dam in the pearl. They have been studying how to fix things on both rivers for well over 20 years and still have no plans.

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Water is water and there are underground connections between the two areas, but no one besides you is saying that the Yazoo pumping project would have prevented any flood of the Pearl.  The dam on the Pearl was not overtopped.  This was just excess rain in the area immediately around Jackson.  Nothing more or less.