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4/22/2025
WT Staff
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025
Mississippi cresting at Vicksburg
Ole Man River runs close to five feet above the channel at Vicksburg Tuesday, 1.5 million cubic feet per second, still on the rise since flood stage was breached at Vicksburg MS early in the morning of April 14.
Peak flow was anticipated at 47.5 ft on April 20, two days later the water level is close to 48 ft., the eighth day of floodwaters rising. WTLA reached out to Louisiana Water Science Center of the US Geological Survey for an update on the flow trend, local impacts and what to expect.
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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