Juan Fernandez, a long-time resident of the Jackson metro and an anti-flooding consultant locally, writes about misleading media coverage in recent decades in favor of a lake development strategy as the plan for reducing flood harm along the Pearl River.
Juan Fernández
Juan Fernández is a 20-year resident of the Jackson, Miss., metropolitan area. He is executing a contract for Healthy Gulf, an environmental and social justice nonprofit, to help connect flood victims in Jackson to information on the Federal Flood Risk Management Project for the Pearl River Basin. He also served as a local consultant in the formulation of the “One River Plan” developed by the University of California, Berkeley, which is an alternative to the One Lake. You can contact him at jacksonfloods@gmail.com or, if the weather is right, along the banks of the Pearl River by Belhaven.