The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers backed down from conducting their man-made flooding, the “spring rise” of the Missouri River, for now.

Missourinet is reporting that both the governor and Attorney Jay Nixon’s calls for a canceling of the man-made flooding may have worked. The Corps are limiting the water release to only sections of the Missouri River north of the Kansas City.

Nixon was happy with the change.

“(T)he bottom line is that while we don’t believe a spring rise is right in any occasion, this year is especially galling when you have, literally, thousands of Missourians sandbagging what’s being release by the Corps,” Nixon said. “So, we are glad that they have changed their positions.”

Nixon tried to get a court order, twice, to stop the flooding earlier this week, but was denied on both the initial filing and the appeal.

The Corps releases this man-made flood annually in an effort to mimic the river’s natural flooding to protect an endangered species of fish. They have routinely received opposition from the state government.