Mississippi Business Journal » lake http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 17 May 2013 22:01:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 After two-year-closure, state lake ready for re-stocking http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/18/after-two-year-closure-state-lake-ready-to-be-stocked/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=after-two-year-closure-state-lake-ready-to-be-stocked http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/18/after-two-year-closure-state-lake-ready-to-be-stocked/#comments Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:59:11 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=67032 SALTILLO — It may not look ready, but according to state wildlife officials, Lake Lamar Bruce is ready to be stocked with fish — very small bluegill and redear sunfish as well as catfish fingerlings. “Tupelo Fish Hatchery and Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks have partnered to raise the fish to put back [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/18/after-two-year-closure-state-lake-ready-to-be-stocked/feed/ 0 Corps releasing water from lake to raise falling river http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/17/corps-releasing-water-from-lake-to-raise-falling-river/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corps-releasing-water-from-lake-to-raise-falling-river http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/17/corps-releasing-water-from-lake-to-raise-falling-river/#comments Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:09:33 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=66923 MISSISSIPPI RIVER — Amid strong concerns about the declining level of the already low Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi. Last Saturday, Corps of Engineers officials began releasing water at Carlyle Lake in southern Illinois, saying the additional water [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/12/17/corps-releasing-water-from-lake-to-raise-falling-river/feed/ 0 State lakes being stocked with non-reproducing fish http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/12/state-lakes-being-stocked-with-non-reproducing-fish/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-lakes-being-stocked-with-non-reproducing-fish http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/12/state-lakes-being-stocked-with-non-reproducing-fish/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:41:38 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=65165 AROUND MISSISSIPPI — If you’re fishing one of Mississippi’s 19 state-operated lakes this winter and you catch a crappie with a dark stripe running down its back, don’t worry. There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s a relatively new breed of fish known as a “Magnolia crappie” that state conservation officials have been experimenting with for [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/11/12/state-lakes-being-stocked-with-non-reproducing-fish/feed/ 0 Authorities continue effort to save two Isaac-damaged dams http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/06/authorities-continue-effort-to-save-two-isaac-damaged-dams/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=authorities-continue-effort-to-save-two-isaac-damaged-dams http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/06/authorities-continue-effort-to-save-two-isaac-damaged-dams/#comments Thu, 06 Sep 2012 17:46:36 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62270 LAMAR COUNTY and PIKE COUNTY — Mississippi Emergency Management Agency says the release of water from two damaged dams in Lamar and Pike counties continues. MEMA director Robert Latham says while it uncertain how any additional rainfall may impact these dams, work will continue until the risk to the public is eliminated. Neither dam has [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/06/authorities-continue-effort-to-save-two-isaac-damaged-dams/feed/ 0 Officials pumping out water in effort to save crumbling dam http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/officials-pumping-out-water-in-effort-to-save-crumbling-dam/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=officials-pumping-out-water-in-effort-to-save-crumbling-dam http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/officials-pumping-out-water-in-effort-to-save-crumbling-dam/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 17:07:03 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62237 LAMAR COUNTY — Officials are using pumps to drop water levels in an earthen dam at the southern end of the Lake Serene system in Lamar County near Hattiesburg that was damaged by the heavy rains of Hurricane Isaac. More than a foot of rain that fell in the area last week saturated the barrier [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/officials-pumping-out-water-in-effort-to-save-crumbling-dam/feed/ 0 Weakened dam prompts precautionary evacuation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/weakened-dam-prompts-precautionary-evacuation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=weakened-dam-prompts-precautionary-evacuation http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/weakened-dam-prompts-precautionary-evacuation/#comments Wed, 05 Sep 2012 12:10:48 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62227 LAMAR COUNTY — A portion of the Buccaneer Drive Dam that separates two lakes in Lamar County is sliding, which could cause flooding downstream, so emergency management officials have called for a precautionary evacuation. The sliding, initially reported Monday, is also causing cracks on the roadway. WDAM-TV reports there is no immediate danger and the [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/09/05/weakened-dam-prompts-precautionary-evacuation/feed/ 0 Officials continue to drain swollen lake; dam still holding http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/31/officials-continue-to-drain-swollen-lake-dam-still-holding/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=officials-continue-to-drain-swollen-lake-dam-still-holding http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/31/officials-continue-to-drain-swollen-lake-dam-still-holding/#comments Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:08:26 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=62096 PIKE COUNTY — Gov. Phil Bryant and local emergency officials are meeting today to discuss the next step in dealing with a lake swollen with rain from the remnants of Isaac inside a southwest Mississippi park. The 2,300-foot-long earthen dam — a levee on which a two-lane roadway runs — has not been breached. Yesterday, [...]

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]]> http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/08/31/officials-continue-to-drain-swollen-lake-dam-still-holding/feed/ 0 State-owned lake to reopen after six-year closire http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/30/state-owned-lake-to-reopen-after-six-year-closire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-owned-lake-to-reopen-after-six-year-closire http://msbusiness.com/blog/2012/07/30/state-owned-lake-to-reopen-after-six-year-closire/#comments Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:14:53 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=60499 BOLIVAR COUNTY — State wildlife officials say Lake Charles Capps in Bolivar County will reopen in September. The Bolivar Commercial reports the lake was closed in 2006 by the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks for renovation. Dennis Riecke, a fisheries biologist with the MDWFP, said that one of the main reasons that the [...]

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