For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

Most of the year, less than 10% of the river’s sediment reaches the critical Bird’s Foot Delta, according to scientists.

The Amite River Basin Commission recently outlined 13 major ... pump system to send high water in Spanish Lake to Mississippi River. West Shore Levee connector: $104 million, partially funded ...

Obraz autorstwa Openverse. The Mississippi River Basin represents North America’s largest drainage system, encompassing all or parts of 31 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces. This vast watershed ...

After years of relatively low Mississippi River flow ... is still high enough to deliver large amounts of sediment to Louisiana from the river’s enormous drainage basin, consisting of 41% of the ...

A prolonged flood event is beginning to unfold along the lower Mississippi River, a consequence of the widespread heavy rainfall that drenched the river basin in early April ... Due to the flat ...

In response to rising water levels on the Mississippi River ... conditions on the Mississippi River and the river slowing its rise, the gates at Steele Bayou Drainage Structure have been reopened ...

As storms begin to move out of the Cumberland River Basin in Tennessee and Kentucky ... at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. They are currently increasing releases to conserve ...

heavy rain has fallen on the Merrimec River basin just south of St. Louis and is leading to significant flooding. It may take two to three weeks for the surge of water to cycle to the Mississippi ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District reports that its dam projects in the Cumberland River Basin are operating ... the flows from 75% of the drainage area above Nashville to zero ...