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Introduction
The Board of Mississippi Levee Commissioners has the constitutional
responsibility to the State of Mississippi to operate and
maintain a system of levees along the Mississippi River. They
also have the legislative authority to participate with the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on various projects on the interior
drainage such as the Big Sunflower River and Tributaries Project,
Upper Steele Bayou Project and the Yazoo Backwater Project.
Those specific areas of responsible are as follows:
Levee
Maintenance Responsibility
Levee
System Miles
Mississippi River Mainline Levee 163
Greenville Harbor Dike 8
Brunswich Extension Levee 13
Yazoo Backwater Levee 28
Total: 212 miles of Levees
Interior Stream Maintenance Responsibility
Interior
Stream Miles
Big Sunflower River 50.92
*Black Bayou 35.77
Bouge Hasty 6.5
Bouge Phalia 58.2
Clear Creek 13.15
Ditchlow Bayou 4.16
Dowling Bayou 7.88
Holly Bluff Cut-Off 4.21
Hushpuckena River 27.5
Little Sunflower River 20.85
*Main Canal 25.3
Snake Creek 9.8
Steele Bayou 58.24
Twin Lakes Bayou 2.46
Valewood Ditch 2.42
Yazoo Backwater Channel 24.04
Total: 360 miles of Interior Streams
* Maintenance provided by local drainage district
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