The entrances of the Steele Bayou Control Structure, situated about 10 miles north of Vicksburg, Miss., were opened up by the Vicksburg Engineer District on June 13. They had actually been been shut considering that June 1 as a result of high phases on the Mississippi River.
The Steele Bayou Control Structure, which was integrated in 1969, incorporated with the Mississippi River and also Yazoo Backwater dams, protects against the Yazoo and also Mississippi rivers from supporting and also better swamping the Delta.
Current phases observed on the Mississippi River within the USACE Vicksburg District’s territory since June 14 were 32.9 feet at Arkansas City, Arkansas; 44.5 feet at Greenville, Mississippi; 43.7 feet at Vicksburg, Mississippi; and also 52.2 feet at Natchez,Mississippi River phases at these places are forecasted to remain to succumb to the following couple of weeks.
Vicksburg District workers and also their neighborhood companions will certainly remain to keep an eye on the problems of flooding control functions, consisting of dams, flooding wall surfaces and also pumping terminals, throughout the totality of the area’s territory.
