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Written by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Tuesday, 02 September 2008 |
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency killed a federal plan nearly seven decades in the making to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi River Delta.
It is the first time since 1990 that the EPA has vetoed a project proposed by the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers.
The $220 million proposal would have moved almost 23 million litres of water a minute from about 270 square kilometres of wetlands along the Yazoo River, mostly for the benefit of flood-prone farmers.
An EPA official says the project, first authorized by Congress in 1941, would cause unacceptable damage to fish, wildlife and waterfowl.
The EPA says it will work with the Corps to find a better project to control flooding in the region.
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