The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to take a step back and reconsider its proposed new water control plan in the wake of comments heard during a public meeting Monday night.
“They collected more comments last night. It was the first night we had gotten a lot of comments,” said Sandra Spence, operations manager with the Corps at Mark Twain Lake and Clarence Cannon Dam. “I wish we had had more of these folks come to the earlier meetings. I think we have had six scoping meetings already. That would have been helpful.”
Because of the number of comments the Corps received on the proposed plan it is no longer up for adoption in its current form.
“That was not the final meeting. We’re going to have another one,” said Spence, who did not know when the next public meeting will be scheduled.
The lone stumbling block Monday was the proposal to raise the lake pool level to accommodate the annual fish spawn.
“Everyone else was fine with all the other changes,” said Spence. “That (fish spawn) was a contentious item and will continue to be looked at.”
For additional details, see the Wednesday, March 10, edition of the Courier-Post.
