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In August of 2022 events of extreme flooding occurred. Torrential rain flooded Mississippi Pearl River. It also flooded the Ross R. Barnett Reservoir which is 33,000 acres. The Jackson area relied on this source for water in their homes. When a flood occurs often the water becomes contaminated because of runoff.
Robert H. Coats (B.A. 1896 U.C., visiting professor of statistics) – Canada's first Dominion Statistician. Herbert Marshall (B.A. 1915) – statistician, academic, Canada's third Dominion Statistician. Samuel Beatty (Ph.D. 1915) – mathematician and educator, Beatty sequence is named after him, 21st Chancellor of the University of Toronto.
The Ross Barnett Reservoir, often called the Rez, is a reservoir of the Pearl River between Madison and Rankin counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The 33,000-acre (130 km 2 ) lake serves as the state's largest drinking water resource, and is managed by the Pearl River Valley Water Supply District .
The 1979 Easter flood was one of the most costly and devastating floods to ever occur in Mississippi, United States, with $ 500–700 million in damages ($2.1 billion in 2020 dollars).
The Ross Barnett Reservoir serves as the primary source of drinking-water for Mississippi's nearby capital city, Jackson. [10] [11] A 1982 lawsuit was brought against the district by the city, successfully claiming that PRVWSD misappropriated tax collections from the city for purposes other than paying off the original reservoir construction ...
Jackson, MS: City of Jackson, 1977. LCCN 77-081145. External links. Jackson, MS Mayor's Office - official website This page was last edited on 4 December 2022, at 10: ...
Walter Ross Wade (1810–1862) was an American physician and planter in the Antebellum South. He owned the Rosswood Plantation, a cotton plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. His diary was published posthumously.
Charles Thomas Jackson (June 21, 1805 – August 28, 1880) was an American physician and scientist who was active in medicine, chemistry, mineralogy, and geology.
Located in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. on the campus of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, it is the only dental school in Mississippi.
John-Ross (JR) Rizzo, M.D., M.S.C.I., is an American physician-scientist known for his contributions to the field of healthcare and rehabilitation. He holds the Melamid Professorship in Rehabilitation (Disability) Medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center . [1]