Supermodel: The Mississippi Basin In Miniature.

The article focuses on the 210-acre Mississippi Basin Model, which was created to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers coordinate its flood control efforts throughout the river basin. In 1929, the Corps established the Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station (WES) in Vicksburg to investigate flood control in the lower Mississippi River valley. The basin model was retired in the early 1970s as it was to be replaced by computer simulation.