Several cities, counties and businesses across the Mississippi Gulf Coast sued the Corps, claiming the more frequent, lengthier openings of the Spillway in recent years have caused significant damage to the environment and economy of the Coast.
Court documents detail the struggles of fishery and tourism businesses on the Coast, from seafood and live bait businesses to hotels.
In the first declaration, he “states that the inshore fish habitat and wild oyster reefs were ‘repeatedly decimated, in large part by the Bonnet Carré Spillway openings’ in 2011, 2016, and 2018.’” “This is a way of life down here that is unravelling while we watch it. If we have more years of the Bonnet Carré Spillway affecting us the way it did in 2019, we will lose more fishermen, fishing families and our culture that we can never make up,” Bradley stated.
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