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Severe flooding of residential and commercial properties in Rapid City occurred when Canyon Lake Dam became clogged with debris and failed in the late evening hours of June 9 resulting in 238 deaths and 3,057 injuries. [2] Over 1,335 homes and 5,000 automobiles were destroyed.
The Illinois Waterway system consists of 336 miles (541 km) of navigable water from the mouth of the Calumet River at Chicago to the mouth of the Illinois River at Grafton, Illinois. Based primarily on the Illinois River , it is a system of rivers, lakes, and canals that provide a commercial shipping connection from the Great Lakes to the Gulf ...
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi [4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois , [ 5 ] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2 ). [ 6 ]
With the development of the Illinois Waterway to provide for a standardized inland shipping connection between Calumet Region and the Mississippi River, 160 feet (49 m) passing sidings were built along the canal every three miles in 1936. [2] However, the primary purpose of the Cal-Sag remained to drain sewage and stormwater away from the lake.
Pactula Reservoir, Canyon Lake Rapid Creek is a tributary of the Cheyenne River , approximately 86 mi (138 km) long, in South Dakota in the United States . [ 1 ] The creek's name comes from the Sioux Indians of the area, for the many rapids in the stream.
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Watersheds of Illinois is a list of basins or catchment areas into which the State of Illinois can be divided based on the place to which water flows.. At the simplest level, in pre-settlement times, Illinois had two watersheds: the Mississippi River and Lake Michigan, with almost the entire State draining to the Mississippi, except for a small area within a few miles of the Lake.
Saganashkee Slough is a 377 acres (153 ha), manmade riparian lake that forms part of the valley of the Cal-Sag Channel. [1] It is located in the Palos Forest Preserves of Cook County, Illinois, [1] on wetland that was drained but was later reverted to a lake starting in 1948-1949 by the construction of dams and levees. [3]