To meet climate-fueled flood risk, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must evolve. Basinkeeper and nearly 100 organizations sent a call to action urging the Corps to usher in a new era of comprehensive, and nature-based flood risk reduction: Protecting the Atchafalaya Basin is a must to protect us from catastrophic flooding. All river diversions to fill wetlands in the Basin away from the coast must stop and our environmental laws must be enforced.

To read the letter to the USACE click here