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The flood forced the closing of several Missouri River traffic bridges from just above Gavins Point to northern Missouri. The closings made it impossible to cross the river for more than 100 miles (160 km) between Sioux City and Omaha and another 100 miles (160 km) between Plattsmouth, Nebraska (just south of Omaha) at Mile Marker 591 and St ...
A series of flood control reservoirs backed up by massive dams is a key factor driving the high water currently swelling the Missouri River. The abnormally high flow on the upper Missouri River ...
Several hundred-year flooding events occurred in 2011. In North America, the following events occurred on separate rivers and tributaries: 2011 Assiniboine River flood; 2011 Lake Champlain and Richelieu River floods; 2011 Manitoba floods (disambiguation) 2011 Mississippi River floods; 2011 Missouri River flood; 2011 Musselshell River flood ...
The 2011 Missouri River floods was a flooding event on the Missouri River in the United States, in May and June that year. The flooding was triggered by record snowfall in the Rocky Mountains of Montana and Wyoming along with near-record spring rainfall in central and eastern Montana.
On May 3, using the planned procedures for the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway, the Corps of Engineers blasted a two-mile (3 km) hole in the levee protecting the floodway, flooding 130,000 acres (530 km 2) of farmland in Mississippi County, Missouri, in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois and the rest of the levee system, from record-breaking flood waters. [19]
Fort Calhoun plant on June 16, 2011 during the 2011 Missouri River Floods; vital buildings were protected using water-filled perimeter "flood berms" On June 6, 2011 the Omaha Public Power District, as required by Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidelines, declared a Notification of Unusual Event [22] [23] (minimal level on a 4 level taxonomy ...
Following the 1983 flood, a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (4.0 km) section of the upper fuseplug and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile (2.4 km) section of the lower fuseplug were raised and embedded with sections of polyethylene pipe to be filled with liquid explosives and detonated when the Cairo flood stage reached 61 feet (19 m).
The Mississippi River at St. Louis crested just shy of 50 feet on Aug. 1, 1993, nearly 20 feet above the flood stage threshold. This was one of 92 water gauges to record an all-time record crest ...