Jackson ‘Ute Sion Coan dns: te Maloney pe eh eps ews a scl RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT OF FULL EVALUATION OF TWO LAKES PLAN WHEREAS, thirty years after the Great Flood of 1979, the residences and businesses within the Jackson Metropolitan Area remain extremely vulnerable to flooding from the Pearl River; and WHEREAS, a proposal referred to as the Two Lakes Flood Control Project has been offered as a promising solution to control flooding on the Pearl River in the Jackson Metropolitan Area and provide miles of shoreline, on a stable lake with islands, with immense recreational and economic development benefits; WHEREAS, the current levee plan proposed by the United States Army Coms of Engineers may only be 79% effective and leaves downtown Jackson susceptible to back water flooding in Town and Lynch Creeks, while providing no economic development opportunities and no resulting ad valorem tax benefits; and WHEREAS, the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 authorizes the construction of a locally preferred flood control plan while providing $133,770,000 in federal funds for construction; and Now therefore, be it resolved, that the Jackson Chamber of Commerce fully Levee Board’s request for completion of the preliminary draft study of the Two Lakes project and other reasonable alternative plans and further deems that these expenditures are a cost-effective method towards eliminating the devastating effects of flooding in the Jackson Metropolitan area. supports the Authorized by Board of Directors by the Jackson Chamber of Commerce on October 15, 2009. 7 4 / ly David Pharr, Chairman of the Board Cyalthia Buchanan, Executive Vice President Jackson Chamber of Commerce Jackson Chamber of Commerce