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Steele Bayou Flood Control Structure to open this week
VICKSBURG, Miss… The Steele Bayou Flood Control Structure will be opened Saturday, August 8, 2015. The Steele Bayou structure is located north of Vicksburg and was built in 1969 to provide backwater flood protection from the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers. The Steele Bayou Flood Control Structure gates were closed in June of this year because of the unusual high water levels this summer. Heavy rains in the backwater area in early July raised the water levels on the land side of Steele Bayou Flood Control Structure to 87.3 feet inundating thousands of acres of the lower Delta. Normal levels for this time of year are 68 to 70 feet.

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