Then,on April twenty-fifth, General Taylor received word that a large Mexican force had crossed the border a few kilometers up the river.
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The lawsuit says the state created a task force to address potential flooding along the river after devastating floods in June 2006, but the task force never convened before the 2011 flood.
So in March members of the Mississippi River Collaborative, an environmental group, filed a lawsuit designed to force all those involved to think about ways to solve the problem.