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WABG covers
Levee Board activities through
regular reports
by
DBJ
Beginning
in mid-September, WABG TV-6, the Delta’s ABC affiliate
television station based in Greenville, initiated a series
of reports covering the activities of the Mississippi Levee
Board. Three of the 13 reports have already aired, according
to Ryan Evans, WABG’s weather anchor and news reporter,
who has been assigned to the coverage.
“It’s been very interesting,” Evans says
about doing the Levee Board news segments. “In particular,
I was fascinated with the story we did on the helicopter
spraying brush on the Big Sunflower River so that the flood
waters could flow more freely. You just don’t think
of spraying brush as a part of flood control,” Evans
laughs. Explaining the reports, Evans comments, “We’re
trying to cover, in an unbiased way, what the Levee Board
is doing to control flooding for the Delta.”
With an average of one report airing about the Mississippi
Levee Board every two weeks on WABG, Assistant Engineer
Peter Nimrod says the response has been very good.
“Several people have stopped me and remarked that
they have seen and been interested in the reports,”
Nimrod says. “This all fits in with our public information
campaign with the Mississippi Levee Board which started
almost three years ago.”
WABG airs the reports on their 5, 6 and 10 pm newscasts,
with repeats of the segments on their “Good Morning
Mississippi” program, which airs at 6 am. To date,
the reports have focused on the aforementioned helicopter
spraying on the Big Sunflower River, the 496L Levee Enlargement
Job in Mayersville, and the Yazoo Backwater briefing with
Mississippi Congressman Roger Wicker and the new Assistant
Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, John Paul Woodley.
