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How An Iowa Town Won Its Fight For Better Flood Protection


In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasn t 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 a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town. 
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Hamburg in southwest Iowa sits five miles from the Missouri River, sandwiched between it and the Nishnabotna River. Just outside of town, the Ditch 6 levee stretches for a mile and a half, shielding the town of 1,100 people from runoff from the Loess Hills to the north and east. Built in 1998, it also serves as a secondary line of defense for Hamburg’s industri ....

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Advocacy Group Labels Lower Missouri, Raccoon Rivers Among Most Endangered In The U.S.


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Paddlers gather on the Missouri River. The organization American Rivers has named the Lower Missouri the second most endangered river in the nation this year due to flood management issues.
The Lower Missouri and Raccoon Rivers are among the top 10 most endangered rivers in the country this year, according to the national advocacy group American Rivers. The organization is calling for concerted action at all levels of government to address flood management and the regulation of agricultural pollution, issues which pose threats to human health and safety.
Lower Missouri named #2 most endangered
American Rivers has named the branch of the Lower Missouri which runs from Sioux City to St. Louis as the 2 ....

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