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Farmers Battle Record Floods and Drought
By Garrett Tenney Published July 21, 2011| FOXBusiness Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2011/07/20/farmers-battling-record-floods-and-drought-this-growing-season/#ixzz1TepRITBY Mother nature is every farmer’s best-friend -- and worst enemy. Deadly tornadoes, record flooding, and one of the worst droughts in recent history are making this year an especially challenging one for crop growers. In Mississippi, some farmers are facing flooded fields side-by-side with fields that haven’t seen significant rain in months. Billy Whitten can’t remember ever having to deal so much water ...
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The Great Flood of 2011
Water leaves major damages—and questions—in its wake - SOURCE" http://goo.gl/oOwvV Written by Becky Gillette Unbelievable. Awe-inspiring. Unprecedented. Those are some of the words used to describe the Great Flood of 2011. But mere words can’t really convey the epic event that was the greatest test ever of the Mississippi Rivers & Tributaries Project (MR&T) that was put ...
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Mississippi plume could threaten life in Gulf
SOURCE: http://goo.gl/gGPnJ By Kate Spinner Published: Monday, July 25, 2011 at 12:54 p.m. Last ...
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Womack, Crawford argue flood relief tops rail funding
By Peter Urban Stephens Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Arkansas U.S. Reps. Steve Womack and Rick Crawford today defended a Republican plan to steer $1.5 billion in unobligated high-speed rail funds to Midwestern disaster relief. Speaking on the House floor, the two freshmen Republicans argued that Congress should put a priority on helping communities devastated by floods this spring. “In my district of Arkansas, the cresting of the Illinois River has ...
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Corps too slow in repairing levee, Emerson says
An article from the Southeast Missourian sums up the current issues regarding the repair of the levees in the Birds Point Spillway. Read more at the Southeast Missourian
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Levee repair and bolstering is essential
"But we do know one thing: Experienced people like 5th Louisiana Levee District President Reynold Minsky believe work needs to be done, and done now, to keep our Mississippi River levee system secure." read the full article here http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20110701/OPINION01/107010324
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FOR EXPERT COMMENT: Southeast Missouri Flooded Farmlands are too Important to U.S. Economy Not to Restore, MU Professor Says
June 13, 2011 Story Contact(s): Christian Basi, BasiC@missouri.edu, 573-882-4430 COLUMBIA, Mo. — On May 2, 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers blew a two-mile hole on the 35-mile-long Bird’s Point-New Madrid floodway in an effort to save several towns along the flooded Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The flooding covered 134,000 acres of land, but most of the flood waters have subsided. A University of Missouri professor says now is the time to restore the land to agricultural use ...
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Water still a concern to residents in New Madrid County
Late Tuesday evening, water still rushed over the roads new Dorena on the south end of the area affected by the Birds Point levee breach. It's quite a different scene from the north end near Pinhook. Both areas sustained major damage as the water rushed in, but near Dorena more water remains. "It looks like a bomb went off. That's what they did they bombed us," said Milus Wallace who lives near Dorena. "It looks more ...
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The SavetheDelta Website
Welcome to the SavetheDelta website. We are happy to bring you such a great site that will educated those that don't know what has happened first hand with hundreds or images and video that tell the story. We want you ( those direct affected ) to reach out to your local officials and send letters to the White House so that we can get the aid we need to get our Levee System rebuilt and ...
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Still fighting the flood
The Great Flood of 2011 has not gone away, even though the water has gone down in Southeast Missouri. The flood's stench still sours the Mississippi County floodway south of Birds Point where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers one month ago Thursday destroyed the levee that protected thousands of acres of fertile farm land. The decision of course was not an easy one, but done in order to relieve pressure upriver, including the town of ...
