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Corps of Engineers lowers floodfight response to Phase I in all active areas

Published Jan. 13, 2016
The Memphis District covers a 25,000 square mile area of the Mississippi River. We serve customers in portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Our customers also include 100 flood control districts, water resource and wildlife agencies from six states, four Port Commissions, the Lower Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association as well as eight Congressional Districts and 12 Senators.
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The Memphis District covers a 25,000 square mile area of the Mississippi River. We serve customers in portions of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky. Our customers also include 100 flood control districts, water resource and wildlife agencies from six states, four Port Commissions, the Lower Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association as well as eight Congressional Districts and 12 Senators.

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MEMPHIS, Tenn., Jan. 13, 2016 – With river stages falling in all locations, the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has lowered its floodfighting response activation level to Phase I in all active areas.

These locations include the Cairo Area in Illinois, the Missouri Area in Missouri, the Reelfoot-Obion and Memphis Areas in Tennessee, the Clarksdale Area in Mississippi, and the White River, West Memphis and Helena Areas in Arkansas. Floodfighting efforts in the Upper and Lower St. Francis Areas in Missouri ended last week.

As a result of this reduction in activation level the number of field personnel previously deployed has been reduced. Monitoring of flood risk reduction works including levees, flood walls and pumping stations continues in the still active Areas.

Although no significant precipitation is forecast to fall in this area in the immediate future, USACE emergency operations personnel continue to monitor the situation and stay in touch with National Weather Service forecasters as we approach the traditional spring high water season. -30- 


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Jim Pogue
901-544-4109
james.t.pogue@usace.army.mil

Release no. 16-004