as well as voluntary buyouts from some property owners in the affected Yazoo Backwater Study Area in an Environmental Impact Statement released Friday. The plan comes five years after flooding ...

Meanwhile, the Yazoo Backwater Levee also protects ... off highways and isolating communities. Without the backwater levee, the flood would actually be worse. But it’s bad enough.

The Army Corps’ approval of the Yazoo Pumps project in Mississippi ... After heavy rain in 2019, the region experienced severe river backwater flooding, which lasted for about six months in ...

The Flood Warning continues for the following rivers in Mississippi... Big Black River Near Bovina affecting Warren and Hinds Counties. Big Black River Near Bentonia affecting Madison and Yazoo ...

especially after the record-setting backwater flood in 2019. State lawmakers from the area rejoiced over last week’s news. “It’s been a long time coming,” said Sen. Joseph Thomas, D-Yazoo ...

It required 80-plus years of wrangling with agencies of the federal government, but an agreement appears to be in place to ...