06-07-2011, 12:45 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110607/ap_o...r_flooding
By GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press – 2 hrs 6 mins ago
HAMBURG, Iowa – The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small southwest Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters that could leave the community under several feet of water.
If efforts to protect the town — including building a secondary barrier — fail, part of Hamburg could be under as much as 8 feet of water for a month or more, Fire Chief Dan Sturm said. Flooding along the river this summer, expected to break decades-old records, will test the system of levees, dams and flood walls like never before.
By GRANT SCHULTE, Associated Press – 2 hrs 6 mins ago
HAMBURG, Iowa – The swollen Missouri River is threatening to inundate a small southwest Iowa town where officials are piling massive sandbags on a faltering levee to contain floodwaters that could leave the community under several feet of water.
If efforts to protect the town — including building a secondary barrier — fail, part of Hamburg could be under as much as 8 feet of water for a month or more, Fire Chief Dan Sturm said. Flooding along the river this summer, expected to break decades-old records, will test the system of levees, dams and flood walls like never before.