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The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board



Levee Board's 140th Anniversary

Protecting the Mississippi Delta through Flood Control.



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Next regular board meeting -- 11/14/24

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Our Mission

The Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is charged with the responsibility to erect, maintain, and operate a system of levees to protect the people and property of the Delta from damages of high waters of the Mississippi River; ...

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Read our monthly newsletter for more history of the levee and the Levee Board, plus recent events news.

Levee History

The first levees were constructed more than 3,000 years ago in ancient Egypt, where a system of levees was built along the left bank of the Nile River for over 600 miles. The Mississippi levees represent one of the largest such systems found anywhere in the world.

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View district maps of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta levee, plus an interactive map of all the levee districts, created by The Geospatial Interactive Technologies department at Delta State University.

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Clarksdale, MS 38614



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P.O. Box 610
Clarksdale, MS 38614


T:   662.624.4397
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