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An April report by a nonprofit environmental advocacy group named the Mississippi River as the most endangered in the United ...
In 1875, Wong joined 13 other men aboard a steamboat headed to the Mississippi ... In Greenville, a one-room Chinese schoolhouse opened on a grassy knoll near the levee. On the outside, it looked ...
GREENVILLE, Miss., March 28. — The flood situation at this city to-night is more serious than last night, as the water is spreading to new sections of the city. The crevasse in the levee five ...
The water was strangely calm on the Mississippi ... as a welcome-to-Greenville sign? While the river is at flood stage, it is well within the protective barriers of the levee system we so ...
Volunteers weigh used aluminum beverage cans for payment at the Greenville Circularity Center. The city of Greenville, Mississippi, has launched a new community-driven recycling program in partnership ...
On any given day, downtown Greenville, with its parallel avenues ending at the protective levee built to keep the Mississippi River’s floodwaters from destroying the town as they had in 1927 ...
By late April, the Mississippi River set record crests in Arkansas City, Arkansas, and Greenville ... the floodplain due to over 140 breaches in levees. At least 246 people were killed in the ...
Levees are being tested across multiple ... according to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency. In Greenville, Mississippi, the river is expected to crest at 52.5 feet on April 22.
GREENVILLE-The Mississippi river is rising ... Jennings says this is simply the reality of living near the levee and adds he just tries to make the best of it. "It makes it a lot easier when you know ...
High water levels for the Mississippi River in New Orleans spurred increased levee inspections from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, its New Orleans District announced Monday. The river rose above 11 ...