GROUP 8

Name of River:Mississippi River
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_River

Brief description
1)Mississippi River is the second longest river in United State with a length of 2,320miles from from its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.
2)It is also a part of the Missouri-Mississippi river system which is the largest river system in North America.

Uses
1) It can drain 41 percent of the 48 contiguous states and the Mississippi River has the third largest drainage basin in the world .
2)During the war , the river played a decisive role in the Amercian Civil War
That helps to win the battle of Vicksburg in Warren County
.

Problems

1) The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927
is the most destructive flood in US that caused 246 people killed.
2)The Great flood of 1993 is also a disaster in it and it surpassed the record of 1927
that flood 30,000 square mile around it.