View of the flooding Pearl River looking south from the Woodrow Wilson Bridge on Old Brandon Road in Flowood,in August 2022. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today
Heading into the Fourth of July weekend last Thursday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a revised study on potential flood controls for the part of the Pearl River that runs along Jackson. The Corps has narrowed its focus to two proposals, and only one of them would resemble the long-debated “One Lake” plan.
