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Fall 2014 • Vol 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) major 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, Mississippi River 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 Virginia. Directorate, United States 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 Captain 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 Colonel 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 United States Army 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.
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