Engineers: No conflict of interest for Pritchard on county lake dam project
The allegation that Oktibbeha County Engineer Clyde Pritchard has a conflict of interest in the potential replacement of the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam is unfounded, according to Pritchard and peer engineers from other counties.
Engineers squabble over whether to rebuild Oktibbeha Lake dam
Oktibbeha supervisors voted 3-2 on Monday to use county operating funds for County Engineer Clyde Pritchard’s to develop blueprints to replace the Oktibbeha County Lake dam.
Oktibbeha may work with Corps of Engineers to study needs at lake dam
Oktibbeha County leaders will spend the next two weeks figuring out the scope of a study of the county lake dam that the board of supervisors will consider authorizing at its March 16 meeting.
Engineer will prepare plans to replace Oktibbeha Co. Lake Dam
Oktibbeha County supervisors voted unanimously to authorize County Engineer Clyde Pritchard to draw up plans for the replacement of the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam after a public hearing in the chancery courthouse Monday night.
Oktibbeha supes allow review of insurance policy to find funding for potential dam project
Supervisors gave unanimous permission Monday for a Jackson-based insurance adjuster to review the county’s insurance policy for any clauses that might cover the cost of replacing the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam.
County officials back down from evacuation warning around Okt. Co. Lake
County officials did not have to issue the second warning in a month for residents near the Oktibbeha County Lake dam to evacuate, after the lake lowered six inches Thursday.
Oktibbeha likely to issue another lake warning, encourages preparations to evacuate area
Oktibbeha County officials will likely issue another warning regarding the Oktibbeha County Lake on Thursday or Friday, thanks to large amounts of rainfall in the area on Monday, county Emergency Management Agency director Kristen Campanella said in a press release this morning.
Oktibbeha County Lake dam’s structural issues go back decades, with funding main holdup to repair
The Oktibbeha County Lake Dam that came close to breaching and forcing a mass evacuation in January has had structural problems since it was built in 1965, and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has been notifying county supervisors of this since 1985.
Pumps reducing water level at Oktibbeha Lake
The high-alert warning level for the area surrounding Oktibbeha County Lake will continue through the weekend while six diesel-fueled pumps lower the lake to a safer water level, Emergency Management Agency Director Kristen Campanella said Saturday.
‘One big old family’: Neighborhood near Oktibbeha County Lake has long history of unity, fellowship
Walter Bell Road, just northeast of the Oktibbeha County Lake, hasn’t been there as long as some of its residents have.
Corps of Engineers bringing pipes to drain Oktibbeha lake
Oktibbeha County has asked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a set of pipes to drain the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam to a few feet above the bottom in order to relieve pressure on the levee, which started to show early signs of breaching Tuesday morning and prompted a warning and 24-hour monitoring from county leaders.
Oktibbeha Lake dam remains intact; overnight shelter opens in Starkville
As county officials were briefing law enforcement and reporters on the status of the Oktibbeha County Lake dam on Tuesday evening, American Red Cross employees were driving from Greenville to Starkville in order to open the First Baptist Church Outreach Center as an overnight shelter for potential evacuees.
Oktibbeha Lake dam holds overnight; Authorities warn breach still ‘imminent’
Terra Robinson left Henderson Ward Stewart Elementary School, where she is a teacher, as soon as she heard that the Oktibbeha County Lake Dam could flood her and her family’s homes at any moment.
“I had to stop my lessons and see what I needed to do, if I needed to pack my things,” Robinson said. “I’m trying to pack up all my family members’ pictures.”
Oktibbeha County still seeking funding to replace levee at lake
County officials are considering applying for five grants to fund the replacement of the levee at Oktibbeha County Lake, Emergency Management Agency director Kristen Campanella told the board of supervisors at its Monday meeting.
Former KOA employee convicted, fined for threatening couple with gun
A former Kampgrounds of America employee who is shown threatening a black couple with a handgun in a viral video in May was found guilty Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge.
Charge filed against former KOA employee who threatened visitors with gun
A former Kampgrounds of America employee was arrested on Tuesday after a viral video showed her threatening a black couple with a handgun.
Officials waiting on statement on Oktibbeha Kampgrounds incident
Law enforcement officials hope to soon have a formal statement from the victims in a viral video that shows a worker at an Oktibbeha County campsite threatening a black couple with a gun.
Kampgrounds of America employee threatens visitors with pistol
Kampgrounds of America has terminated an employee that a video shows threatening visitors with a gun.
Miller, Montgomery urge caution with new lake offer
District 1 Supervisor John Montgomery and District 4 Supervisor Bricklee Miller say their fellow board members could be sinking money into a want, not a need, if Oktibbeha County pursues a new $2 million offer from former Mississippi State University basketball coach Rick Stansbury for his Starkville Wet ‘N Wild property at Oktibbeha County Lake.
Stansbury, SOCSD reach deal to develop lake property
A pending 16th section lease between former Mississippi State University men’s basketball coach Rick Stansbury and the Starkville-Oktibbeha Consolidated School District could bring about new housing developments at Oktibbeha County Lake.