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Repairs require lock and dam closures along the Mississippi
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers continue to repair and improve locks and dams on the Mississippi River The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ... leading provider of outdoor recreational opportunities, flood ...
Torrential downpours threaten flash flooding in southern, central US
A surge of moisture will advance across the central and southern United States into Thursday. While the rain will be beneficial from drought and wildfire standpoints, too much rain may fall too fast ...
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On the Wisconsin-Iowa border, the Mississippi River is eroding sacred Indigenous mounds
The Effigy Mounds are one of the densest collections still existing in North America, but the Mississippi River is eating ...
The project to repair a flood wall in Helena-West Helena remained at a standstill after a meeting Friday
A $20 million project to repair a 1,600 foot flood wall in Helena-West Helena remained at a standstill after a meeting Friday ...
East St. Louis residents struggle in flooding aftermath, say city should do more
I don’t have a choice but to deal with it,” one resident said. “I don’t have the money to move nowhere else right now.” ...
WTSP28d
Extremely low Mississippi River levels allow 'once in a lifetime' tourist destination to reemerge again
Mississippi River levels at Chester ... and dramatic droughts that will be punctuated by extreme fluctuation and flooding.” The U.N. weather agency recently reported that 2023 was the driest ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel29d
One of North America's densest collections of Indigenous mounds is at risk. What it means.
Today, though, that river has significantly eroded the bank ... the land on which the mounds were built floods seasonally when the Mississippi floods. Sometimes, the mounds themselves are ...
AOL15d
Drought to downpours: Rain could trigger flooding in Central US
While not enough rain is likely to trigger river flooding or completely erase the ... Water levels on the central and lower part of the Mississippi River are on par with low marks set during ...
KCUR 89.3 FM15d
Upper Mississippi River refuge celebrates 100 years of protection for fish, wildlife and habitat
A flood in 2019 lasted for 90 days ... Ed Britton points at an expanse of shallow water in the Spring Lake Unit in Illinois ...
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Extremely low Mississippi River levels just reemerged a 'once in a lifetime' tourist destination in Missouri for the third year in a row
Mississippi River levels at Chester ... and dramatic droughts that will be punctuated by extreme fluctuation and flooding.” The U.N. weather agency recently reported that 2023 was the driest ...
Iowa Public Radio15d
Upper Mississippi River refuge celebrates 100 years of protection for fish, wildlife and habitat
A flood in 2019 lasted for 90 days ... of shallow water in the Spring Lake Unit in Illinois in the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge. About 100 miles downriver in Illinois ...