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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. Joseph, Missouri, at Mile Marker 450. Authorities were also considering closing the Plattsmouth Bridge.
In such places as St. Louis, river levels were nearly 20 feet (6.1 m) above flood stage, the highest ever recorded there in 228 years. [6] The 52-foot (16 m)-high St. Louis Floodwall, built to handle the volume of the 1844 flood, was able to keep the 1993 flood out with just over two feet (0.61 m) to spare. [ 7 ]
St. Joseph is a city in Andrew and Buchanan counties and the county seat of Buchanan County, Missouri, United States. [3] Located on the Missouri River, it is the principal city of the St. Joseph Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Buchanan, Andrew, and DeKalb counties in Missouri and Doniphan County, Kansas.
Here’s a glimpse of the Great Flood of 1993’s effects on St. Louis and when else in history the Mississippi River has reached record-setting crests.
lower octane gas can be sold if labeled as "sub-standard" or "sub-regular" [11] South Dakota: 85/87 87/89 91 85 octane must be sold with a warning label displayed at the pump. [12] 85 and 86 octane can be sold as regular fuel only in the counties of Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota, Pennington, and Perkins.
A failure to comply with the water conservation mandate could have a “tremendous impact” on the city’s water supply, officials warned. Ice jams, record low levels on Missouri River lead ...
Many early critics of the Pick-Sloan plan were in favor of creating a Missouri Valley Authority (MVA). They claimed that the MVA would provide a more unified solution to water development on the Missouri River than the merged ideas of opposing bureaucracies. Ideas for the MVA were influenced by the success of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources warned in a fiscal analysis that the bill could jeopardize the state’s groundwater, which provides drinking water to almost 60% of Missourians, and ...