Mississippi Business Journal » torrential rains http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Wed, 22 May 2013 14:27:18 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Corps of Engineers to reinforce part of levee system http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/12/corps-of-engineers-to-reinforce-part-of-levee-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corps-of-engineers-to-reinforce-part-of-levee-system http://msbusiness.com/blog/2011/09/12/corps-of-engineers-to-reinforce-part-of-levee-system/#comments Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:25:45 +0000 Associated Press http://msbusiness.com/?p=45933 MISSISSIPPI DELTA — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will spend $3.1 million to reinforce parts of the mainline Mississippi River levee at Lake Albemarle and Buck Chute. The Vicksburg Post reports that both were places the Corps and state levee officials scrambled to patch sand boils and stop sliding during the Mississippi River flood [...]

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