Beartail Creek DEC Site
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Location: Beartail Creek, Yazoo Basin, Mississippi
Description: Typical Box Culvert Grade Control Structure

These structures provide a solution to the situation where a channel bottom is eroding (head-cutting) and the channel is widening and the effect is migrating upstream. These structures are used at a road crossing to avoid reconstruction of a bridge and construction of a grade control structure. They are less costly than either a bridge or a control structure.

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Example DEC Creeks

Beartail Creek
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Hotopha Creek
James Wolf Creek
Long Creek
Marcum Creek
Worsham Creek
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