Delta State University’s Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently presented a workshop on the Mississippi River and the role of the Levee Boards in controlling floods. Twenty-seven teachers participated in the three day program, which was held at the Coahoma County Higher Education Center. The workshop explored how levees are built and maintained and how the Army Corps of Engineers builds jetties, uses dredges and revetments, and maintains the mainline levee system. The great flood of 1927 was also discussed. Funding was provided by the Education Committee of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board, and participants toured the Board’s offices in Clarksdale as well as its tree nursery, which it uses in reforestation programs.
