GREENVILLE, Miss. - Workers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers are in the Greenville area to repair several levee slides after the area had high water twice earlier this year.
Forty slides have been found along the 212mile Mississippi Levee District. It runs from the Gulf of Mexico to Cairo, Illinois. 14 of those are in Washington County, Mississippi.
Mississippi Levee Board's chief engineer, Peter Nimrod, says workers will make repairs through the fall.
In midJanuary, the Mississippi River crested at 56.2 feet in Greenville, a record high for that month and the sixth highest ever since the 1927 flood.
After a brief dropping period, the river rose again to 43.6 feet in midMarch after a heavy rain system moved through the Delta.
