Debris in counties hit hardest by the April 24 tornado could receive cleanup assistance from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has assigned $7.5 million to the district to remove debris from counties requesting federal help. Presently, Yazoo and Choctaw counties have asked for such direct assistance.

Teams of Resident Engineers and Quality Assurance Inspectors will be deployed to counties requesting federal assistance. Debris removal will be contracted through local vendors and providers.

Warren County has applied to the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality to approve a debris collection site near the Simmons Planting Co. cotton gin. Tree limbs and other nonstructural debris may be disposed of at the site.

MDEQ has encouraged taking storm debris to solid waste management facilities in “high-impact areas” in the tornado’s path. In Warren County, those sites are the Waste Management-Vicksburg Municipal Solid Waste Transfer Station on Mississippi 27, Vicksburg-Warren County Landfill on Pit Road, off U.S. 80, and Warren County Waste Control, on Jeff Davis Road.