PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT
NAVIGATION DATA CENTER
CASEY BUILDING, ALEXANDRIA, VA 22315-3868
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PORT SERIES REPORT NO. 72

PORTS OF NATCHEZ, VICKSBURG, AND GREENVILLE, MS
AND PORTS ON THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI RIVER
(MILES 255-620 AHP)
(Revised 2004)

The Navigation Data Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announces the availability of Port Series Report No. 72. The Port of Natchez is located along both banks of the Mississippi River, within Adams County, and includes the locality of Vidalia in Concordia Parish, Louisiana. Its limits extend from about mile 360 to mile 365 AHP.

The Port of Vicksburg is situated along the left bank of the Mississippi River, within Washington County, Mississippi and includes Lake Ferguson, a former river bend that constitutes the port’s slack-water harbor. The limits of the port extend from about mile 533 to mile 544 AHP.

Facilities at six other public ports are also located within the scope of this report: The Port of Rosedale in Bolivar County, Mississippi along the Log Loader Chute, a slack-water channel entering the left bank of the Mississippi River at mile 584.4 AHP; The Port of Lake Providence in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana on the Hagaman Chute, a slack-water channel entering from the right bank of the Mississippi River at mile 483.4 AHP; The Madison Parish, Louisiana port-commission facility at mile 457.2 AHP; the Yazoo County Port at mile 74 on the Yazoo River in Yazoo City, Mississippi; the Claiborne County, Mississippi port with a dredged basin at mile 404.8 on the left bank of the Mississippi River; and the Yellow Bend River Port, under jurisdiction of the Chicot-Desha Counties Port Commission, a similar dredged basin at mile 553.6 AHP on the right bank of the Mississippi River in Chicot County, Arkansas.

The Mississippi River continuously meanders from mile 620 to mile 255, but generally flows southward through a clear and unobstructed channel.

Port Series Reports delineate the Nation's principal coastal, Great Lakes, and inland port and waterway terminal and transfer facilities. The publications, produced under authority of law, are intended to meet the needs of federal, state, and municipal agencies; port and waterway development authorities; and others concerned with the utilization and improvement of existing terminals, and the planning and development of new ones. Facility descriptions include details of berthing accommodations, petroleum and bulk-handling equipment, intermodal transfer, transit sheds, warehouses, repair plants, and other elements associated with port and waterway operations. The locations of the described facilities are depicted on four aerial photographic maps of the waterfront areas. The report comprises a total of 95 facilities. It supersedes a similar report published in 1991.

The report may be purchased for $11.00 (see Ordering Guide on reverse). Publications are mailed postpaid (4th Class Mail), on the same day that the order is received, unless a prepaid alternate delivery method is specified.

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