{"id":721789,"date":"2026-06-23T19:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721789\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:52:13","slug":"officials-monitor-water-levels-at-reservoir-after-days-of-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/721789\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials monitor water levels at Reservoir after days of rain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) &#8211; After days of torrential rain, metro area officials are keeping a close eye on water levels at the Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Levels are much higher than usual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District increased the discharge from the spillway at the Reservoir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Pearl River at Jackson has reached over 28 feet. The flood stage is 28 feet in Jackson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Minor flooding is expected in areas of the capital city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During the 2020 flood, the Pearl River topped out at 36.7 feet, flooding at least 450 homes in Hinds and Madison counties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Want more WLBT news in your inbox? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammar error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2026\/06\/23\/officials-monitor-water-levels-reservoir-after-days-rain\/mailto:wlbt-digitalcontent@gray.tv\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it and include the headline of the story in your email.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"link | text-reset d-block h-100 w-100\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/page\/download-the-wlbt-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Watch WLBT Live!\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782244333_159_RIXYVIO7URDVJOSPAF7HZ33RTQ.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WLBT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON COUNTY, Miss. (WLBT) &#8211; After days of torrential rain, metro area officials are keeping a close eye&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,177961,310622,310621,310623,310620,79],"class_list":["post-721789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-hinds-county","tag-jackson-flooding","tag-pearl-river","tag-pearl-river-valley-water-supply-district","tag-reservoir-flooding","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}