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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]
The flood, rather than being a short term event, was anticipated to last from June through August 2011 as a result of attempts by the Corps of Engineers to regulate the release of water through 850 miles (1,370 km) of open river from Garrison Dam in North Dakota to the confluence with the Mississippi River at St. Louis.
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.
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 ...
July–August 2022 United States floods: Greater St. Louis, Central Appalachia, Southern and Southwestern United States 2022 Flood: 1 $29 million 2022 Montana floods: Montana: 2022 Tornado outbreak: 3 $1.3 billion Tornado outbreak of April 4–7, 2022: Southern United States, Midwestern United States, Eastern United States: 2022 Tornado ...
The US Army Corps of Engineers operate six dams, located in eastern Montana and the Dakotas, on the upper main stem of the Missouri, which are designed to Missouri River Dams Key to 2011 Flood ...
The 2011 flooding on the Musselshell River in Montana began about May 21, affecting large parts of central Montana. [1] [2] At Mosby, Montana, the river crested at 16 feet (4.9 m) on Monday, May 23. The flood level at Mosby is 8 feet (2.4 m) and the record crest at that point along the Musselshell is 17.7 feet (5.4 m), set in 1993. [3]
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