Mississippi Major River Corridors — Pearl, Big Black, Tombigbee Waterway Coordination (MS)
Tracked preemption from the Mississippi overlay bundle.
Overview
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Effective
1972-07-01
Sunset
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Authority
state
Scope
state:MS
Other Mississippi preemptions
Mississippi Brownfields Voluntary Cleanup & Redevelopment ActMississippi Coastal Preserves System — Tidelands Trust & MDMR Designated PreservesMississippi Gaming Control Act — Gulf Coast & River County Casino Siting PreemptionMississippi Tax Increment Financing Act — Redevelopment & Economic Development TIFMississippi Agricultural Districts & Agricultural Land PreservationMississippi Coastal Wetlands Protection Law — MDMR Permit JurisdictionMississippi Floodplain Management Act — NFIP Compliance & SFHA Construction StandardsMississippi Military Installation Influence — AICUZ Coordination (Keesler AFB, Columbus AFB, NAS Meridian, Stennis Space Center, Camp Shelby)
Trigger predicate
When this evaluates true for a parcel, the law's preempted fields take precedence over base zoning.
OR
parcel.in_pearl_river_corridor==Trueparcel.in_big_black_river_corridor==Trueparcel.in_tombigbee_waterway_corridor==Trueparcel.in_mississippi_river_levee_district==True
Preempted fields
3 fields on the base district schema are rewritten when the trigger fires.
| Field | Op | Value | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
review_type | require | drainage_or_levee_district_concurrence | Mississippi Levee District (Bolivar, Issaquena, Sharkey, Washington, parts of Humphreys, Warren) and Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District (Coahoma, DeSoto, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica, parts of Bolivar, Leflore, Sunflower) hold §51-7 authority to regulate construction in levee setbacks |
review_type | require | usace_section_408_permission_for_levee_alteration | USACE §408 permission required for any alteration of federally-authorized flood control works (Mississippi River mainline levee, Yazoo Backwater Project, Pearl-Ross Barnett, Tenn-Tom) |
base_districts[*].river_corridor_setback | floor_at | local_river_corridor_overlay_setback | Pearl River Basin Development District (§51-15), Pat Harrison Waterway District (§51-15 Pascagoula basin), Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District (§51-13), and Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Joint Water Management District operate as parallel water-resource regulators alongside §17-1 zoning |
Citation
Authority source
Miss. Code Ann. §§51-7-1 et seq. (Levee Districts); §§51-15-1 et seq. (Regional Water Management & Pearl/Pascagoula basin districts); §§51-13-1 et seq. (Tombigbee River Valley Water Management District); 33 USC §408 (USACE alteration of federal works)
§ §§51-7; §§51-13; §§51-15
Research notes
MS river-corridor governance is fragmented across (a) two Mississippi River levee districts in the Delta, (b) the Tenn-Tom Waterway (a 234-mile federal navigation channel running Alabama-Mississippi from Pickwick Lake to the Tombigbee/Mobile system, with locks at Aberdeen, Amory, Columbus, Bevill, Heflin, Stennis, and others, plus Bay Springs Lake), (c) the Pearl River corridor (touching Jackson, Madison, Rankin, Hinds, Copiah, Simpson, Lawrence, Marion, Pearl River cnties; Ross Barnett Reservoir governed by §51-9 Pearl River Valley Water Supply District), (d) the Big Black River (touching Webster, Choctaw, Attala, Holmes, Yazoo, Madison, Hinds, Warren, Claiborne, with no single multi-county management district — managed by county S&WC districts), and (e) the Pascagoula River basin under Pat Harrison Waterway District. Federal conflict check: USACE §10 (Rivers & Harbors Act) and §408 apply throughout.