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In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasnt enough time to build the levee higher before the 2019 flood, like the Corps of Engineers did in 2011. Katie Peikes / Harvest Public Media Originally published on April 13, 2021 12:28 pm Levees protect people, towns, and agriculture from flooding. But two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s...

Listen • 4:31 In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasnt enough time to build the levee higher before the 2019 flood, like the Corps of Engineers did in 2011. Two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town. Hamburg, Iowa, sits five miles from th...