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Congressman Garret Graves (South Louisiana) sent a letter today urging the Corps of Engineers to execute the investment of nearly half a billion federal dollars in the Morganza-to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project – the largest investment in the project's history, which Graves fought to secure in the government funding bill enacted on September 30, 2021.

"The landfall of Hurricane Ida on August 29, 2021 demonstrated the importance of the Morganza to-the-Gulf hurricane protection project and confirmed the need for the nearly $500 million in recent additional federal investments. As we discussed a few weeks ago at the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association meeting in Washington, D.C., it is critical that the project's implementation is expedited to better protect the citizens of Terrebonne and Lafourche parishes," Graves said in his letter to the Corps of Engineers' Commanding General of the Mississippi Valley Division. "We fought hard to secure this important investment in our resiliency, and it is critical that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers execute on these funds as soon as possible."

Read the full letter here.

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