More Levees could been blown
Posted by
JAC on 5/5/2011, 8:33 am
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110504/ap_on_re_us/us_severe_weather_flooding_149
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Flood worries that prompted the U.S. government to blast open a Missouri levee to ease pressure on some towns are rippling down the Mississippi River, leading to more evacuations and unease as the Army Corps of Engineers weighs whether to purposely inundate more land with water.
The breach of southeastern Missouri's Birds Point levee was heralded by some Illinois towns along the Ohio River as a needed relief from record flooding, and the man who ordered that action says he may do the same with other Mississippi River spillways as flood prospects mount.
Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh said he understood the farmers' frustration at the corps' decision to sacrifice the levee Monday and send a wall of water over 130,000 acres of farmland. A lawsuit was filed to try to save the land, but was unsuccessful. |
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- Scientific Basis for New Madrid Seismic Hazard is Sound - JAC, 4/29/2011, 7:18 am
- Re: ??? on New Madrid Fault and the Peaking River - JAC, 4/28/2011, 6:33 pm
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