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Corps of Engineers photo of June 16, 2011, showing the Fort Calhoun nuclear power plant surrounded by flood water NOAA map of flooding areas on June 18, 2011. The Missouri River is reflected by gages in the middle and top.
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 ...
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.
For the first time in the dam's history, the US Army Corps of Engineers opened the dam's spillway gates on the morning of June 3, 2011. In response to the 2011 Missouri River Floods, the dam was releasing 150,000 cubic feet per second (4,200 m 3 /s), which greatly exceeded its previous record release of 74,000 cu ft/s (2,100 m 3 /s) set in 1997 ...
The U.S. government may have to pay tens of millions of dollars — or more — to landowners along the Missouri River after a court ruled it worsened flooding there since 2007 that killed crops ...
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]
Signs that floodwaters were headed south began to emerge as the NWS issued a major flooding designation on Saturday for Osceola, Arkansas, where the Mississippi River reached above 35 feet (10.7 m ...
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) due to flooding of the Missouri River. [24] The Missouri River was above flood stage and expected to rise further, and to remain above flood stage for ...