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A dam at Percy Quinn State Park in Pike County is having structural problems, and workers are sandbagging its base today due to rains from Tropical Storm Isaac, and a levee break just across the Mississippi state line threatens 60,000 people and is forcing emergency evacuations.
The expected levee break is near Kentwood, La.
In some places at the dam near McComb, “the earth has washed away at the base,” said Mississippi Emergency Management Agency spokesman Greg Flynn.
“The Department of Environmental Quality and the Corps of Engineers are sandbagging around that area.”
Agricultural land, and not residential, could be impacted, Flynn said.
The area is not far from the Louisiana border and Tangipahoa Parish, where a mandatory evacuation was ordered this morning because of a potential levee breach.
The expected levee break at Lake Tangipahoa was expected to allow a torrent of water south. The evacuation will affect between 50,000 and 60,000 people, news reports say.
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Amite Police going door-to-door to inform residents of the evacuation below the dam along the Tangi River
McComb, MS mayor: “People need to be moving. They need to get out in case the dam does fail.”
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Civil emergency message for Pike County. Evac along the river below the dam. River crest at record at Osyka due to expected dam failure.
We don't need the Corpse of Engineers to sandbag squat. The old Corp of Engineers' job was to prevent the need for citizens to sandbag anything in the middle of the night!
The new, "better" Corps, these days, is busy declaring "wetands" out of thin air and denying people the use of their property.
Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?