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After the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the engineering policy on the Mississippi River changed from building levees high enough to withstand the greatest recorded flood to include floodways. The Flood Control Act of 1928 authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in Missouri and the ...
A public health crisis in and around the city of Jackson, Mississippi, began in late August 2022 after the Pearl River flooded due to severe storms in the state. [1] The flooding caused the O. B. Curtis Water Treatment Plant, the city's largest water treatment facility, which was already running on backup pumps due to failures the month prior, to stop the treatment of drinking water indefinitely.
The flood between May and June was the second most severe flood in the lower Mississippi Basin since 1927. Red River Landing, Louisiana, reached the 4th highest crest of record at 60.52 feet (18.45 m) on June 5 and was flooded for 115 days. All bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway were opened for 35 days. [5]
Flood damage to the MetroLink light rail transit system in St. Louis was estimated at $18–20 million. [36] In St. Peters, ten puppies at an animal rescue shelter died in the flooding. [37] Dardenne Creek in St. Peters rose over 21 feet (6.4 m) into major flood stage over the span of seven hours. [18]
A governing board in central Mississippi, the Rankin-Hinds Pearl River Flood and Drainage Control District, has advocated the development of a new 1,700-acre (688-hectare) lake along the Pearl ...
Torrential rains Tuesday night into Wednesday resulted in flooding of roads and highways around central Mississippi, prompting a flash flood emergency across central portions of the state ...
Some roads may be flooded or closed, the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said. The Flood Threat is at an "Elevated" risk for most of the state. This means areas could see 4-8" of rain or ...
Beginning in the 15th century, the Mississippi River created a small, westward, oxbow loop, later called Turnbull's Bend, near present-day Angola, Louisiana. This loop eventually intersected the Red River, making the downstream part of the Red River a distributary of the Mississippi; this distributary came to be called the Atchafalaya River. [3]