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The mission of the Board of Levee Commissioners for the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta is to erect and maintain a system of levees to protect the people and property of the Delta from damages from high waters of the Mississippi River. It also directs the necessary activities to protect lives and property from the threat of flooding from interior streams, and furnishes the local cooperation for various flood control projects of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.