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GL This is the proposed application area in the Morgan Ann of Jordan Lake (Photo: NC DEQ) In a letter to the Division of Water Resources, the Corps rejected the proposal, worth $1.3 million to SePro. The Corps, which built the reservoir on an old tobacco farm in the 1970s and 1980s, has legal jurisdiction over Jordan Lake. Without its approval, the plan can't proceed. The treatment segment of the project was scheduled to begin in March 2019. And for the first time, the Corps' letter reveals there was a plan in the works to conduct a similar pilot project for Falls Lake. The Jordan Lake plan called for using algaecides and other chemicals, as well as dumping as many as 350 tons of chemically treated clay fill into 300 acres of the Morgan Creek Arm. That amount is for only one treatment, and is similar in scale, the Corps wrote, to a bridge replacement or road widening project. SePro would be unwilling to remove the fill after the pilot program ended, because it would be too expensive, according to the letter. "Cost is not an acceptable justification for not addressing the adverse impact," the Corps countered. feed on them, but cutting into the recreational use of the reservoir. Although the state submitted the 114 -page proposal in October, it was not the Department of Environmental Quality's idea. SePro had hired former House Speaker-turned-lobbyist Harold Brubaker to muscle a $1.3 million appropriation through both charnbers. The legislature responded by slipping in an 11 th -hour provision to earmark The permanent loss of water storage volume, the Corps wrote, "is an Cost is not an unacceptable adverse impact" to all five of the lake's congressionally authorized purposes: water supply, flood control, public recreation, fish acceptable and wildlife, and downstream water quality. justification for not addressing the The chemicals contained in the algaecide could harm aquatic life, and lanthanum, a soft metal compound of phosphorus - locking clay, "would adverse impact likely accumulate in certain tissues offish in the lake" the Corps wrote. In some instances, the chemical harm is unknown, but state officials believe the number of the fish would decrease, harming not only the wildlife that feed on them, but cutting into the recreational use of the reservoir. Although the state submitted the 114 -page proposal in October, it was not the Department of Environmental Quality's idea. SePro had hired former House Speaker-turned-lobbyist Harold Brubaker to muscle a $1.3 million appropriation through both charnbers. The legislature responded by slipping in an 11 th -hour provision to earmark