GREENVILLE, Miss. – The Mississippi Levee Board issued a statement on Friday, January 17, celebrating the signing of Record of Decision for the Yazoo Backwater Water Management Project bringing the Yazoo Pump project one step further to completion.
Below is the board’s statement in it’s entirety.
On January 16th Maj. Gen. Kimberly A. Peeples, Commander of the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, officially signed the Record of Decision for the Yazoo Backwater Area Water Management Project. The Water Management Plan includes a 25,000 cfs pumping plant turned on at 90′ during the crop season (March 25th – October 15th) and 93′ during the non-crop season (October 16th – March 24th)…