The Vicksburg Warren School District has received the final installment of its federal reimbursement for expenses incurred during the 2011 Mississippi River Flood.

The $74,166 payment brought the total federal reimbursement to $107,890.07, said Gail Kavanaugh, the district’s child nutrition director who doubles as school safety officer and handles emergency claims.

FEMA reimburses 75 percent of the expenses incurred in such disasters, Kavanaugh said, while the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency pays 12.5 percent and local areas absorb the other 12.5 percent. Those portions are each $17,981.68 of the total cost, $143,843.55.

The district has not received its reimbursement from MEMA but continues to work with state officials to obtain it, she said.

The historic flood, in which the Mississippi River topped flood stage in Vicksburg by more than 14 feet, caused the closure and evacuation of Redwood Elementary School May 6, displacing 445 students.

Floodwaters rose over U.S. 61 North in Redwood, resulting in closure of the four-lane highway as well as Mississippi 465 into the Eagle Lake community and many other roads in Warren County. The river crested in Vicksburg May 14 at 57.1 feet, nearly a foot higher than the previous benchmark flood of 1927.

Trustees of the VWSD approved an emergency expenditure of $65,000 to build a levee around Redwood Elementary, particularly around the back where creeks backed up and threatened to inundate the building.

The actual cost of the levee ended up at nearly $99,000, district records show.

Redwood’s students finished the school year at Sherman Avenue Elementary and Warren Central Intermediate School.

In addition to the cost of the dirt and labor to build the emergency levee, Kavanaugh said, emergency expenses included the cost to pack up and move school equipment, purchase and man pumps and generators, security services while the school was empty and recovery and restoring the school after the floodwaters receded.

In April, the City of Vicksburg received $28,865 from FEMA to buy out four homes in the Kings community damaged in the flood. The city contributed a $9,621, 25 percent match.

City officials in November applied for a $150,000 buyout grant, which is expected to be received in two phases.