More flood protection needed After billions upon billions of dollars in damages to public and private property, lost lives, devastated communities, and permanently destroyed agricultural lands, it ...

The flood events since 2004 could have been diminished and may not have occurred if the corps would have stuck to its list of priorities of navigation and flood control as number one.

The plume of sediment-choked polluted water that comes with the flood has turned the Bay chocolate milk brown as far south as Point Lookout Maryland in past events such as Tropical Storm Lee in 2011.