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House Approves Nation's Costliest Waterway Navigation Project

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Abhijeet Chavan
16 July 2005 - 7:00am

Scientists and environmentalists oppose new Mississippi River locks.

"The House voted on Thursday to approve the nation's costliest waterway navigation project, a $3.6 billion undertaking to ease shipping on the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Environmental and taxpayer groups have opposed the project.

Barge operators and farmers want to speed grain to Gulf of Mexico ports...Government scientists, however, had said that grain exports probably would not increase enough to economically justify the lock overhaul plan."

Full Story: House approves new Mississippi River locks among $10 billion in Corps of Engineers projects
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 14, 2005
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