chute

Farmers and environmentalists faced off at a hearing today in Jefferson City over a water project on the Missouri River west of Boonville. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers wants to build a new chute at Jameson Island designed to protect the pallid sturgeon and other native fish species. Building it would involve dredging along the Missouri River, and the Corps wants to dump the sediment back into the river. The move is strongly opposed by farm interests. Dale Ludwig with the Missouri Soybean Association says up to a million cubic yards of sediment could be dumped into the Missouri River.