impMISSISSIaPPI LEVEcE BOARD t NEWSLETTER “Where people come first” Fall 2014 • Vol. 13, No. 1 2011 FLOOD PROBLEM AREAS BEING CORRECTED Permanent Solutions being constructed at 11 Problem Areas here were (12) seepage berm at Albemarle Construction Co., Inc. in problem areas (Item 465L) . Phylway December 2013. The contractor Tdiscovered during the completed the Buck Chute will construct a 4,400’ long, 110’ Historic 2011 Flood that berm and relief wells by mid- wide landside seepage berm needed attention and remedial December 2011. Phylway and install 43 relief wells at work. completed the dirt work for the Avon (Item 526L) , 6 relief In December 2011, Albemarle berm in April 2012 wells at Greenville (Item Congress passed an $802 In 2012, the Vicksburg 539L) , 12 relief wells at Leota Million Supplemental District contracted with Gulf (Item 514L) , 21 relief wells at Avon - Pre-Clearing for Landside Berm Appropriation for disaster Group, Inc. to rebuild and Lake Jackson (Item 509L) relief to repair the MR&T extend the landside seepage and 16 relief wells at Ben System following the 2011 berm and install 16 relief wells Lomond (Item 488L) . Flood. The Mississippi Levee at Francis (Item 616L) and to Construction has commenced Board and the Vicksburg rebuild and extend the landside at Avon with the borrow and District Corps of Engineers are seepage berm and install 11 berm areas being cleared and using part of this money to relief wells at Above construction has started on the permanently correct 11 Greenville (Item 543L) . Item landside seepage berm. problem areas. 543L was accepted by the Operation Watershed Recovery Corps of Engineers in July 2014 is currently 6% complete. FIVE PROBLEM AREAS FIXED and Item 616L is virtually Avon - Clearing for Landside Berm In the Summer of 2011, the complete with the exception of CONSTRUCTION TO BE COMPLETED BY Corps contracted to remove repairing some erosion and turf THE END OF 2014 and recycle the poly-sheeting establishment. By the end of 2014, 11 from the landside slope of the problem areas discovered Yazoo Backwater (YBW) PROBLEM AREAS UNDER CONSTRUCTION during the Epic 2011 Flood will Levee . The Corps Hired Labor In 2013 the Corps contracted have a permanent solution in Crew permanently raised the with Harding Enterprises, LLC place. The 11 problem areas low areas up to elevation 107.0', to build a 11,500’ long landside were corrected by installing and the Corps let a seepage berm and install 32 187 relief wells and maintenance gravel supply relief wells at Tara (Item constructing 20,405’ (3.9 miles) Avon - Landside Berm – Clearing Results contract which added new 456L) . All of the relief wells of landside seepage berm. The limestone on 7.3 miles of the have been completed and the Vicksburg District Corps of YBW Levee (Sta. 0-385 YBWL). landside seepage berm is under Engineers utilized 5 separate In mid-September 2011 the construction. This item is contracts totaling $11.3M. The Corps contracted with Phylway currently 43% complete. Mississippi Levee Board would Construction, LLC to build a The remaining five (5) reset like to thank Congress for 1,700' long, 200-240' wide items have been consolidated appropriating the emergency landside seepage berm and into one project called money and the Corps of install 30 relief wells at Buck Operation Watershed Engineers for designing and Chute (Item 458L) and build Recovery. This project was contracting out the work to fix a 2,500' long, 150' wide landside awarded to Magruder all these problem areas. n Avon - Loading Borrow

Tara - Completed Relief Wells Tara - Hauling Material Mowing Completed Albemarle Berm Avon - Hauling Borrow Material Avon - Loading Borrow Brigadier General Michael C. Wehr Commander, Mississippi Valley Division & President-designee, Commission Brigadier General Michael C. a career engineer officer and in - include the Japan Engineer Dis - Wehr assumed command of the cludes the engineer officer trict, U.S. Pacific Command and Mississippi Valley Division, Vicks - courses, a master’s degree in civil the Vicksburg District. burg, Miss., August 29, 2014. He engineering from the University He is grateful to have been also serves as president-designee of Texas and graduation from the awarded the Bronze Star with of the Mississippi River Commis - Command and General Staff Col - oak leaf cluster, the Ranger tab sion. Wehr came to MVD from lege and the Joint Forces Staff and the Sapper tab. He also holds Afghanistan where he served as College. a professional engineer license in director of the Joint Engineering Wehr served in engineer bat - the Commonwealth of . Directorate, talion assignments as a Lieu - The Mississippi Valley Divi - Forces-Afghanistan, and com - tenant at Ford Ord, Calif., in the sion is responsible for water re - mander of the Transatlantic Divi - 14th; as a at Fort Bragg, sources engineering solutions in sion (Forward), Afghanistan. N.C., in the 307th; as a Major at a 370,000-square-mile area, ex - As MVD commander, Wehr is Fort Stewart, Ga., in both the tending from Canada to the Gulf General Michael C. Wehr responsible for a $2 billion civil 92nd and the 11th; and returned of Mexico and encompassing the general improvement of the works program. In addition, he back to Fort Bragg as a Lieu - portions of 12 states. Work is car - Mississippi River from the Head plays a vital role in managing the tenant to command the ried out by district offices located of Passes to the Headwaters. The Corps water resources program 307th Engineer Battalion in OP - in St. Paul, Minn.; Rock Island, Mississippi River Commission in the Mississippi River Valley. ERATION IRAQI FREEDOM. Ill.; St. Louis, Mo.; Memphis, brings critical engineering repre - Wehr grew up in a military Following command, he contin - Tenn.; Vicksburg, Miss.; and New sentation to the drainage basin, family, studied civil engineering, ued to serve the 82nd Airborne Orleans, La. which impacts 41% of the United and was commissioned a second Division as the Chief of the Mod - Since 1879, the seven-member States and includes 1.25 million lieutenant through ROTC at ular Force Coordination Cell for presidentially appointed Missis - square miles, over 250 tributaries, Santa Clara University in 1985. the Transformation of the Divi - sippi River Commission has de - 31 states and two Canadian His formal education is typical of sion. Other engineer assignments veloped and matured plans for provinces. n Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association

The Mississippi Valley Flood Control As - of the Mississippi Valley against the maxi - MVFCA and sociation (MVFCA) was established in 1936 mum probable flood. has had a seat as a group of levee boards and drainage dis - • To secure the stabilization of the banks of on the Execu - tricts from the lower Mississippi River Val - the Mississippi River to assure the integrity tive Commit - ley seeking legislative amendments to the of the Main River Levee System. tee since it 1928 Flood Control Act. A predecessor or - • To support channel and major drainage was estab - ganization, The Mississippi Valley Associa - improvements throughout the Mississippi lished. Mr. Steve Gambrell, George Gruget and tion organized in 1922, was abandoned after Valley. Fred Ballard, Rob Rash doing important work getting the 1928 Act • To cooperate in every proper way with the President of the Mississippi Levee Board, passed by Congress. Department of the Army, the Chief of Engi - currently serves on the Executive Commit - The MVFCA has been active since that neers of the and the tee along with Mr. Willie Gregory, President time and annually visits with U.S. Congres - Mississippi River Commission. of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board. sional members to seek appropriations to The MVFCA President and two Vice Pres - The current Executive Vice-President is Rob complete the vital Mississippi River and idents are sitting members of the United Rash who follows the legendary George C. Tributaries (MR&T) Project. States Congress. Senator Roger Grugett who served as Exec. V-P from 1980 The Association’s five major Wicker (MS) is the current Presi - to 2012. objectives are: dent of the Association. Past The late Harold Council, of Greenville, • To provide an agency MVFCA Presidents include also served on the MVFCA Executive Com - through which all people of Thad Cochran, G.V. “Sonny” mittee prior to his appointment to the Mis - the Mississippi Valley may Montgomery, Tom Abernathy, sissippi River Commission. speak and act jointly on all John Stennis, Frank Smith and The staffs of the member organizations flood control, bank stabi - Will M. Whittington. The Exec - also serve as members of the Engineering lization, navigation and utive Vice-President along Committee of the MVFCA and this Commit - major drainage problems. with a ten member Executive tee has, over the years, been chaired by Mis - • To seek Congressional au - Committee, created in 1946, acts sissippi Levee Board Chief and Assistant thorization and appropriations for the Association on business Engineers including J.S. Allen, Newman for the early completion of all flood and policy matters. The Mississippi Bolls, James Wanamaker, Peter Nimrod and control projects needed for the protection Levee Board is a charter member of the Bobby Thompson. n 2 ß MISSISSIPPI LEVEE BOARD Levee Enlargement Levee Enlargement Projects Project Update: Work continuing despite limited funding from Congress Co mpleted Work - 35.4 miles Items 474L, 477L, 488L, 496L & 502L On -going Construction: Item 468L - 4.7 miles - 87% Complete Item 463L - 2.7 miles - 55% Complete Item 509L - 3.9 miles - 23% Complete Future work remaining - 22.3 miles

468L - Topping Out the Levee 468L - Topping Out the Levee 468L - Embankment Construction

463L - Loading Borrow Material 463L - Hauling Borrow Material 463L - Embankment Construction 509L - Embankment Construction Work continues on the levee item is on the northern portion of enlargement and berm projects MS Hwy 465 to Goose Lake in the Mississippi Levee District. Road. Item 463L, a 2.7 mile con - The Corps has completed 35.4 ventional levee enlargement proj - miles of levee and currently has ect, was awarded in October 2012 another 11.3 miles under contract to Circle Construction, LLC and of the original 69 miles of defi - is 49% complete. Item 509L, a 3.9 cient levee. Item 468L, a 4.7 mile mile conventional levee enlarge - conventional levee enlargement ment project, awarded to Affolter project is 86% complete. This Construction is 18% complete n 509L - Hauling Borrow Material 509L - Construction Helicopter Application 155.4 miles of interior streams sprayed in Fall 2013 The U.S. Army Corps of En - streams each year. A mixture of gineers began work on the Big aquatic herbicides are sprayed Sunflower River & Tributaries on the underbrush and privet Project in 1947. This project in - that are encroaching into the re - cluded channel improvements quired clear width of the chan - to over 700 miles of interior nel. This required clear width streams located within the Mis - must be maintained to ensure Loading Aquatic sissippi Delta. These streams the streams have adequate Herbicides on Helicopter provide the outlet for flood flood storage and passage ca - water in the Delta. In 1950, the pacity. Mississippi Legislature author - This year the Mississippi ized the two (2) Mississippi Levee Board treated 155.4 miles Delta levee boards to participate of its interior streams. This in - as local sponsors of Corps of cluded 1,194 acres of interior Engineers projects within the streams located primarily in the Yazoo Basin. The Mississippi southern h alf of the Mississippi Levee Board i s responsible for Levee District. Provine Helicop - minor maintenance for 350 ters sprayed on October 3-5 and miles of interior streams within 10, 2013. Streams treated this the Mississippi Levee District. year included Steele Bayou, Big To perform this much Sunflower River, Little Sun - needed maintenance, the Mis - fl ower River, Dowling Bayou, sissippi Levee Board contracts Ditchlow Bayou, Valewood with a helicopter applicator to Ditch, Twin Lakes, 6-Mile Cut-Off spray a portion of the interior and the Holly Bluff Cut-Off. n Helicopter spraying IMPACT NEWSLETTER ß 3 Mississippi Levee Board Meeting Recaps OCTOBER 2013 Myresville Farms and Fins & The Board took the following Feathers for a riverside gate near action at the October 7, 2013 reg - Sta. 6860, to Mississippi Hunting - ular board meeting: reviewed ton Point, LLC for a riverside gate bids and awarded purchase of near Sta. 3363; authorized adver - two new utility vehicles to Can - tisement for a rubber tire back - non Ford, Cleveland, MS; author - hoe/loader; authorized a ity was given to advertise for delegation to the MVFCA Con - worker’s compensation insur - gressional Meetings March 24-26 ance; concurred with permit is - in Washington, D.C. to discuss FY sued to Centennial Pipeline 2015 Appropriations for Corps Company for a pipeline crossing projects in the Mississippi Delta; Ginger Morlino swearing in Commissioners Kenny Rodgers, Nott Wheeler, Jr., Paul Hollis at Sta. 5157; November 14, 2013 and received status reports on all and Hank Burdine. was set as the date for annual the ongoing projects in the Mis - 7918 and Sta. 8083 and to Energy mils (no change); received Chief levee inspection trip; and re - sissippi Levee District and meet - Transfer Crude Oil Co. for Engineer’s Annual Report; ac - ceived report from the Chief En - ings attended. pipeline at James Crossing Sta. cepted bid on helicopter applica - gineer on all ongoing projects in 5124; authorized advertisement of tion work by Provine Helicopters; the Mississippi Levee District. APRIL 2014 bids for helicopter application; concurred with permits issued to: The Board took the following agreed to purchase John Deere SW Gaming, LLC near Sta. 4420 JANUARY 2014 action at the April 7, 2014 regular 5055E tractor at State Contract for parking facilities, fencing, util - The Board took the following ac - board meeting: reviewed bids and price from Wade, Inc.; and re - ity crossings and improvements tion at the January 13, 2014 regu - awarded purchase of Case 580 ceived status reports on all ongo - and to Enbridge Energy Market - lar board meeting: reviewed SN backhoe/loader to ing projects in the Levee District. ing, LLC for pipeline crossing at bids and awarded Ayres Delta, agreed to Sta. 6831; authorized a delegation Worker’s Compensa - accept low bids on JULY 2014 to the MVFCA Annual Fall Con - tion Insurance to South chemical purchases The Board took the following gressional Meeting September 9- Group Insurance; au - for next 12 months, action at the July 14, 2014 regular 10 in Washington, D.C. to discuss thorized advertisement awarded general lia - board meeting: re-elected com - FY 2015 Appropriations for Corps of bids for Business bility, automobile and missioners Kenny Rodgers, Nott projects in the Mississippi Delta; Auto/Public Officials & property insurance to Wheeler, Hank Burdine and Paul authorized a delegation for the Employees/Liability/ Con - South Group Insurance, Hollis were sworn in; Fred Bal - National Waterways Conference tractors Equipment Insurance, and awarded purchase of a lard was re-elected President of September 17-19 in Shreveport, chemicals and vehicles; con - ¾-ton pick-up truck to Cannon the Board; Kenny Rodgers was LA; and received status reports curred with permits issued to: Ford; concurred with permits is - re-elected Vice-President of the on all ongoing projects in the Mis - TROP Casino for casino expan - sued to: Delta Telephone Co. for Board; adopted 2014-2015 budget; sissippi Levee District and meet - sion and improvements, to buried utility crossings at Sta. set ad valorem tax rate of 2.90 ings attended. n staff profile: 2014 MISSISSIPPI LEVEE BOARD Darryl Jordan Levee Board Maintenance Crew Operator Having previously been a sum - mer worker, Darryl Jordan joined the Mississippi Levee Board Main - COMMISSIONERS: tenance Crew full-time in March Fred A. Ballard, Jr. , President, Washington County 2011 just in time to help fight the Kenneth Rodgers, Vice-President, Humphreys County 2011 Flood. While he is an experi - James W. House, Jr. , Bolivar County enced operator on all of the Levee Nott Wheeler, Jr., Bolivar County Board equipment, he prefers oper - Roy Nichols, Issaquena County ating a bulldozer. Hank Burdine, Washington County Paul Hollis, Sharkey County Darryl is a native of Greenville, Mississippi and is a graduate of STAFF: Washington School. He and his Peter Nimrod , Chief Engineer wife are the parents of one child. Robert M. Thompson, Assistant Engineer In his spare time, Darryl is an avid Charles S. Tindall, III, Attorney Judy B. Ross, Treasurer deer hunter and he enjoys fishing. Ginger Morlino, Secretary Patrick Bolls, Maintenance Superintendent 4 ß MISSISSIPPI LEVEE BOARD Rick Boyd, Engineering Technician MRC Presents Award to Levee Board Kent Parrish USACE Program Manager of the Year

August 15, 2014 - MS River Commission President Gen. Duke DeLuca presents the MS Levee Board with a “Certificate of Appreciation for outstanding leadership, devel - oping and executing levee assurance roles and responsibilities in the recovery and maintenance of the levees following the 2011 Record of Flood. In appreciation for out - standing partnership with the Mississippi River Commission. Your devoted interest, professional knowledge, and leadership have significantly served the people of the Mississippi Valley and the members of the Commission.” n ReCent RetIReMents: August 20, 2014 – Kent Parrish is awarded Matthew taylor & Benjamin Wright the United States Army Corps of Engineers Over 26 years of experience Program Manager of the Year for 2014. Kent has worked closely with the Mississippi Levee Benjamin Wright also retired on De - Board on the Mainline Mississippi River Levee cember 31, 2013 after serving over 11 Enlargement Project and the Yazoo Backwa - years as custodian of the Levee Board. ter Project. Kent also was instrumental in as - These gentlemen have been a vital part of sisting the Levee Boards within the Vicksburg Levee Board. Their dedication, service, District with the Epic 2011 Flood. “Kent is a dependability, work ethic and experience special person with high moral values and a will be greatly missed. The Levee Board willingness to get things done when the tough hosted a joint retirement party for gets going,” said Fred Ballard, President of the Matthew and Ben on December 13, 2013 Mississippi Levee Board. Chief Engineer Peter at the Levee Board shop in which Com - Nimrod said, “without the intervention of Kent Matthew Taylor retired on December missioners, staff, crew and family at - during the 2011 Flood, we might not have been 31, 2013 after serving over 15 years as an tended and presented them with able to hold back the flood. His actions dur - ing that epic flood helped us prevent a tremen - operator on the maintenance crew. resolutions honoring these gentlemen. n dous disaster. I can’t think of anyone more deserving of this type of nationwide honor 2013 Annual Bus Inspec tion within the Corps than Kent. ” n In MeMoRIAM: Johnny Robinson (1932-2014) Johnny Robinson died January 12, a high school assistant principal and fi - 2014 at his home. Mr. Robinson served nally as an elementary school principal as Levee Board in Greenville, MS. He retired in 1999 Commissioner after a 40 year career in education in from 2000 to 2010. the Mississippi Delta. In 2000 Robin - Members of the 2013 Annual Levee Inspection take a photo in front Robinson was born son was appointed and later elected to of the Onward Store. February 12, 1932 fill the vacancy created by the passing On November 14, 2013, the Mississippi Levee Board in Brookhaven, MS. of Mr. Murry Alexander. He dutifully hosted its Annual Levee Inspection. This year’s trip in - Robinson played served through 2010. In 2009 he was in - spected the south portion of the levee system starting football at Alcorn ducted into the Alcorn Hall of Fame. at Hwy 61 and the Yazoo Backwater Levee and pro - State University Robinson is survived by his wife of 55 ceeding north through Item 456L – Tara Seepage Con - and graduated in years Madeline, three children Stefann trol Project on the Brunswick Extension Levee and 1958 and obtained a (Besse Marie) Robinson, Deirdre (Joe) continuing north on the Mainline Mississippi River Master’s Degree Davis and Ken Robinson, three grand - Levee through Item 463L – Levee Enlargement Project. from Delta State University in 1974. He children and two great-grandchildren. Lunch was served at the Onward Store, Onward, started as an elementary teacher, then n n Mississippi. IMPACT NEWSLETTER ß 5 Levee Board Attends Meetings in D.C. Annual meeting with the Mississippi Congressional Delegation seeks appropriations for flood control projects and provides ongoing project updates The Mississippi Levee Board ects in the Mississippi Delta Chief Engineer, Peter Nimrod within the Mississippi Delta traveled to Washington, D.C. and it is an opportunity for the provided updates on the exist - were presented to the Delega - and met with the Mississippi Levee Board to discuss funding ing Mainline Mississippi River tion. Congressional Delegation dur - requirements for U.S. Army Levee Enlargement & Berms The Board also heard testi - ing March 24-26, 2014. This an - Corps of Engineers projects in project and all the Reset Items mony before the House Missis - nual trip provides the the Mississippi Delta. following the 2011 Flood. Fund - sippi River Congressional delegation with a status update During the visits with the ing requests for U.S. Army Caucus on the 26th. n of ongoing flood control proj - Congressional Delegation, Corps of Engineers projects

Levee Board & Greenville Port in front of U.S. Capitol Cong. Bennie Thompson with Levee Board

Sen. Thad Cochran with MS Levee Board Cong. Gregg Harper with Levee Board

Sen. Roger Wicker with Levee Board & Ports

6 ß MISSISSIPPI LEVEE BOARD Dredge Jadwin Making navigation Possible During Low Water enough mud to fill 5,000 dump the peak of our harvest. The Mis - trucks each day and would cover sissippi River Commission is re - a football field 60' high with dirt. quired by the MR&T Project to Working on average of 120 days a maintain a 9' deep and 300' wide year, the dredge spends the rest channel in the Mississippi River. of the time in Vicksburg undergo - During the drought of 1988, the ing annual maintenance and re - river was closed at Greenville be - pair. Almost all of the repair work cause of grounded barges and is done by the ever attentive crew low water, tying up hundreds of itself. They don’t want outside boats and thousands of barges. Dredge Jadwin, the Greenville Harbor contractors working on THEIR We have a different river today boat. than we had in 1988. Streamside The Jadwin started out as a revetments, directional dikes and BY HANK BURDINE sion. Since its inception in 1928, steam powered boat, was re- channel improvements have al - Her ribs were joined together the MR&T Project has cost the hulled in 1953 and refitted in 1985 lowed the river to do a lot of the with white hot rivets as was her American taxpayers $14 billion with diesel-electric fuel efficient work dredges used to do. By forc - skin and bowels. She slipped her dollars yet has prevented $612 engines. The refitting, along with ing the river to go where the engi - ways in Point Pleasant, West Vir - billion in damages, returning a upgrading crew quarters, cost neers deem necessary during ginia on October 30, 1933, along 44:1 cost/benefit ratio. This return about $10 million as opposed to normal stages, the current and with two sisters, to join the con - is unheard of in today’s times. $40 million for a new dredge. flow of the river itself scours out tinuing fight to keep the greatest The Dredge Jadwin has been an Down and repair time went from the bottom and helps maintain river of the North American Con - integral part of this project since an estimated 5 ½ hours a day to the required channel depth. tinent, and third largest in the she first felt water upon her hull. 50 minutes after refitting. All sup - However, each high-water event world, in control. She was named At 81 years old she works harder port vessels are lashed together silts up the mouths of our har - after the one man that had the today than ever before and al - for moves as one unit ending up bors and ports demanding a con - foresight to know how not to lows her crew to speak with with a 540' long package 111' tinuous need for maintenance confine and demand the Missis - pride and admiration whenever sippi River to follow his wishes, her name comes up. I have had but to allow the Father of Waters the honor to be aboard the to go where it historically wants Dredge Jadwin on two occasions to during times of peak flood. By as a Commissioner of the Missis - designing flood basins to be sippi Levee Board and have seen opened up, our own Yazoo Back - firsthand how hard she works water Levee to be over-topped and why she feels like home to and the Bird’s Point Levee north her steadfast crew of 47 men. of Cairo to be blown up, Chief The Dredge Jadwin is one of a Dredge Jadwin Engineer, Lieutenant General small fleet of “dustpan” dredges Edgar Jadwin worked “with” the designed to “sweep” the bottom wide and carrying a 9' draft. The dredging and this costs money. river, allowing it to show its of the river and tributary chan - refitting has allowed for a 25% re - The success of the MR&T sometimes overwhelming might nels and mouths of ports insuring duced travel time between jobs. Project is phenomenal and has al - while keeping us dry at the same continuous flow of barge and Once on site and anchored the lowed us in the Delta to live nor - time. And during the Great Flood towboat traffic. The 32' wide Dredge Jadwin can be pumping mal lives un-worried of the of 2011, the greatest flood of our head uses high pressure water within 3 hours. devastating floods of yesteryear. recorded history that carried 26% jets to loosen and agitate the But what does all this mean to Our goods and products can more water than 1927, his ideas mud, sand and sediment along us in the Delta? Without dredging move freely in the most cost ef - worked. Not one person died be - the bottom down to a depth of in our ports and harbors, the fective method of transportation cause of the flood nor was one 62'. Two 1,200 horsepower diesel- mouths of our channels will silt there is, along and on the Missis - acre of ground flooded that was electric motors turn twin 750-volt up and we could not get barges in sippi River. The Dredge Jadwin not supposed to. DC electric motors which spin or out, or at best, we would have has served a most important and Lt. General Edgar Jadwin’s the rotors on a huge pump mov - to light load barges, adding integral part of making all this plan of strengthening the existing ing 16,500 gallons per minute and greatly to the costs of shipping. happen. She’s old, but she works levee system, placing concrete compressing the slurry from a 38" With our ports shut down, our hard and is well respected up and revetments along the riverbanks, pipe into a 32" outflow pipe. This abundant grain harvest would down the river. Where her once improving the existing river chan - constriction allows the water and have to be trucked out adding steam and black smoke spewing nel by dredging and contraction sand and mud to be pushed al - tremendously to the cost of grain, twin stacks were recognizable works, having a controlled spill - most 1,250' to the exit point not to mention added traffic con - from afar, today her efficient and way and utilizing three flood - through the pipe placed atop 20 gestion to our highway and inter - capable abilities are admired and ways, led to the comprehensive articulating pontoons. The state system. Storage facilities valued on the rivers upon which Mississippi River and Tributaries Dredge Jadwin can pump over would overflow and commerce she travels. I tip my hat to the (MR&T) Project which was au - 4,000-cubic-yards of material an along the river would almost Dredge Jadwin and God willing; thorized by the Flood Control Act hour and working 24-hours-a-day come to a standstill during times hope to be upon her when she of 1928. This project is overseen will send almost 100,000 cy of of low water. Historically the low - turns 100. n by the Mississippi River Commis - material downriver. That is est water on the river is during IMPACT NEWSLETTER ß 7 to be numbered by the thousands. He was prominent in the affairs of his county and the States of Louisiana and Mississippi although never in politics, the only office which he ever held being that of a member of the Levee Board BACK IN TIME : of Issaquena County. Mr. Duncan graduated from the University of Mississippi at Stephen B. Duncan Oxford and soon afterwards Mississippi Levee Board President took charge of his plantations 1893-1895 in that state. He was married to he New Orleans Picayune o f yesterday morning says: Mrs. Elsie Armour-Bolte, T Stephen B. Duncan, one of the largest and best known daughter of the former chief cotton planters of the south, died suddenly at his planta - justice of the Province of On- tion home (Baleshed) in Issaquena County, Mississippi yesterday, tario, Canada. aged 58 years. The news of the death of Mr. Duncan was received The remains of Mr. Duncan by telegraph here late yesterday, and came as distinct shock to his will be brought from Issaquena relatives and friends who had received no intimation that he was county to Vicksburg today. ill. Colonel John M. and Judge Mr. Duncan was the son of the late Samuel T. Duncan and Porter Parker left last evening Martha Parker and was one of the best known men of the sister for Vicksburg where they will Stephen B. Duncan states. He was prominent in the club life of New Orleans, having receive the body and hold it pending the arrival of Mrs. Duncan been a member of both the Boston and Pickwick Clubs as well as from Toronto, where she had been visiting relatives. Mrs. Duncan other exclusive social organizations. was telegraphed for yesterday and is now en route home. She will Having been left motherless when a small child, Mr. Duncan join the funeral party at Vicksburg, when the remains of Mr. Dun- was reared by his aunt, Mrs. John M. Parker, and the news of his can will be taken to Port Gibson, Miss. for interment in the family sudden death, received by the Parker family yesterday, has caused burial grounds. Judge Parker will probably not be able to return profound sorrow in many of the most prominent homes of New until Thursday. Orleans. Source: The Natchez Daily Democrat, December 16, 1912, Of a warm and lovable disposition, Mr. Duncan’s friends were Page 2. n

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