Yazoo Basin - Reference DomainThe reference domain for this guidebook is the portion of the Yazoo River Basin that occurs between Memphis, TN, and Vicksburg, MS, bounded on the east by the valley wall and on the west by the Mississippi River mainline levee system that controls Mississippi River flooding. The reference domain does not include the non-alluvial portions of the Yazoo River Basin that lie east of the valley wall of the alluvial plain of the Lower Mississippi River Valley. In addition, the reference domain does not include the batture, the relatively narrow strip of land that occurs between the Mississippi River channel and the mainline levee system. The batture is subject to significantly different hydrologic regimes than the areas protected by the mainline levee system and is therefore excluded from the reference domain.
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