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Engineers' report bolsters proposed Mississippi pump project

by Emily Wagster Pettus
| October 16, 2020 3:06 PM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Friday published a draft of a new environmental impact statement that supports a proposal for massive pumps to drain floodwaters from parts of the rural Mississippi Delta — a reversal of a previous federal report that said the project would hurt wetlands.

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