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4/14/2025
WT Staff
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April 14, 2025 1013 am CDT
Ole Man River on the rise - Mississippi flooding at Vicksburg
As US Geological Survey records eight streamflow gauges in Louisiana in flood stage, the Mississippi River breached the channel at Vicksburg MS around 5 am. According to Vicksburg Emergency Response office, the river floods at 43 ft. As we spoke, Ole Man River was measured at well over a million cubic feet per second, 43.26 ft and rising.
According to Vicksburg Emergency Response staff, "It's a slow rise this year." Spring flooding is common, the full extent 47.5 ft expected on April 20th. The city staff are watching the water level and ready to respond. HWY 465 access to the community of Eagle Bend will close on Wednesday, no other impacts are anticipated. There is an alternate route in and out of Eagle Bend.
One hundred and forty nine years ago, late April 1876, the Mississippi River broke the east-west rail line, smashing the DeSoto peninsula and taking out what remained of the Vicksburg, Shreveport and Texas rail terminal and ferry after the Civil War. The City of Vicksburg was devastated without its river port, bankruptcies and turmoil ensued as residents adjusted to new terms of the Union. Six years later, in 1873, the Army Corps of Engineers established an office at Vicksburg to "coordinate federal and local river management and flood control efforts," including the re-construction of levees, allowing for the planting of fields once again. The steamboat industry made a comeback when a diversion brought the Yazoo River to the old Mississippi channel. To this day, the USACE maintains a home office here. among the monuments of the Civil War .
The Safe Drinking Water Act protects public health through the administration and delivery of quality drinking water supplies across the USA. The US EPA establishes standards for drinking water, monitors and enforces treatment techniques for surface water and groundwater, sets maximum limits for around 100 contaminants ensuring public disclosure of deviations and discrepancies.
WaterToday opens the record books of the federal drinking water regulator to bring awareness to the local raw water supply and the compliance record of licensed water treatment facilities. The Louisiana Dept of Health inspects 1,263 licensed and active public drinking water facilities, reporting the results to the EPA. Check back here for drinking water news and alerts as they arise in LA.
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