Description:Chapters: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake, Bay Springs Lake, Aliceville Lake. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arkabutla Lake - After a series of disastrous floods during the mid-1800s and early 1900s, high priority was given to flood control projects. The worst flood in modern history of the Lower Mississippi Valley occurred in 1927. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 spawned a comprehensive program for flood control along the Mississippi River and its tributaries and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers became the planners, designers and builders of the flood control projects. Engineers determined the headwaters of the Yazoo River contributed to or caused much of the flooding that occurred in Mississippis Delta region. In addition to the construction of levees along the Yazoo River, four flood control reservoirs were constructed in north Mississippi as part of the Yazoo Basin Headwater Project. Arkabutla Dam, the second of the dams to be built, was constructed on the Coldwater River. The development of Arkabutla Dam even required the relocation of an entire town. In 1942, the U.S. Government moved the town of Coldwater and approximately 700 residents at a cost of $250,000 to its present location 1-mile (1.6 km) south of the original site. Today there is a monument dedicated to the old town of Coldwater just west of the Coldwater exit off Interstate 55. There you can see a few remnants of the old town; however a majority of the site remains underwater year round. When completed, the Yazoo Headwater Project will protect 1,209,000 acres (4,890 km) of land against flooding and will partially protect another 303,000 acres (1,230 km). Benefits of the Headwater Project...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4935312We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reservoirs in Mississippi: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake. To get started finding Reservoirs in Mississippi: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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2010
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1157397921
Reservoirs in Mississippi: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake
Description: Chapters: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake, Bay Springs Lake, Aliceville Lake. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Arkabutla Lake - After a series of disastrous floods during the mid-1800s and early 1900s, high priority was given to flood control projects. The worst flood in modern history of the Lower Mississippi Valley occurred in 1927. The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 spawned a comprehensive program for flood control along the Mississippi River and its tributaries and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers became the planners, designers and builders of the flood control projects. Engineers determined the headwaters of the Yazoo River contributed to or caused much of the flooding that occurred in Mississippis Delta region. In addition to the construction of levees along the Yazoo River, four flood control reservoirs were constructed in north Mississippi as part of the Yazoo Basin Headwater Project. Arkabutla Dam, the second of the dams to be built, was constructed on the Coldwater River. The development of Arkabutla Dam even required the relocation of an entire town. In 1942, the U.S. Government moved the town of Coldwater and approximately 700 residents at a cost of $250,000 to its present location 1-mile (1.6 km) south of the original site. Today there is a monument dedicated to the old town of Coldwater just west of the Coldwater exit off Interstate 55. There you can see a few remnants of the old town; however a majority of the site remains underwater year round. When completed, the Yazoo Headwater Project will protect 1,209,000 acres (4,890 km) of land against flooding and will partially protect another 303,000 acres (1,230 km). Benefits of the Headwater Project...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=4935312We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Reservoirs in Mississippi: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake. To get started finding Reservoirs in Mississippi: Arkabutla Lake, Sardis Lake, Grenada Lake, Flint Creek Water Park, Pickwick Lake, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Enid Lake, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.