Feds finish Mississippi islands

From the Janesville Gazette

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...The program authorizes tens of millions of dollars every year to address habitat rehabilitation and enhancement, including dredging, constructing dikes, creating islands and controlling side channel flows and water levels.

...Three islands were added between 1989 and 1992 in the first phase of the Pool 8 project, which ran about $2.3 million, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Seven islands were added in the second phase, which wrapped up in 1999 and cost about $3.5 million.

...Planning on the $15 million third phase began in 1999.

...The new islands lie just south of Stoddard, where Coon Creek empties into the Mississippi. They're designed to act as breakwaters, shielding the delta from waves and wind.