JACKSON (AP) — Rising water along the Mississippi River has forced the closure of the Steele Bayou flood control gates to protect low-lying land in the Mississippi Delta.

Officials, however, do not expect significant problems with the pulse of water moving down the river from flooded areas in Iowa and Missouri.

Robert Simrall, chief of water control for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District, says the gates were closed last Friday when water levels reached 75 feet above gauge zero.

Simrall expects that level to rise to about 86 feet with normal rainfall, which should not have much of an impact on farming in the area. Water levels reached more than 92 feet during this spring’s flood when hundreds of thousands of acres were covered.