Mississippi River levee repairs underway near Greenville
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) – Workers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are in the Greenville area to repair several levee slides after the area had high water earlier this year.
Forty slides have been found along the 212mile Mississippi Levee District, which runs from the Gulf of Mexico to Cairo, Illinois. The Delta Democrat-Times reports that 14 of those are in Washington County, Mississippi.
Mississippi Levee Board’s chief engineer, Peter Nimrod, says workers will make repairs through the fall.
In midJanuary, the Mississippi River crested at 56.2 feet in Greenville, a record high for that month and the sixth highest ever since the 1927 flood.
After a brief dropping period, the river rose again to 43.6 feet in midMarch after a heavy rain system moved through the Delta.
