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Yazoo River

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Yazoo River

River, west-central Mississippi, U.S. Formed by the confluence of the Tallahatchie and Yalobusha rivers north of Greenwood, Miss., it meanders 189 mi (304 km) south and southwest to join the Mississippi River above Vicksburg. Its basin is protected from flooding by an extensive system of levees.
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Then-Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt called the plan, which would benefit a relatively small number of landowners, the "most cockamamie" project he'd ever encountered, noting that the Yazoo River Basin is a haven for migratory birds, floodplain fisheries and wetlands wildlife.
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MEMCO's vessels operate on the Upper and Lower Mississippi River, the Ohio River, the Tennessee River, the Tennessee-Tom Bigbee Waterway, the Arkansas River, the Yazoo River, and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.
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