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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 Mississippi River floods in April and May 2011 were among the largest and most damaging along the U.S. waterway in the past century, rivalling major floods in 1927 and 1993. In April 2011, two major storm systems dumped record rainfall on the Mississippi River watershed .
$14.2 billion (2011 USD) Hurricane Irene: North Carolina, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Florida, East Coast of the United States: 2011 Tornado: 346 $11 billion (2011 USD) 2011 Super Outbreak: Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Georgia, Arkansas and Virginia: 336 tornadoes 2011 Flood: 20 $2–4 billion [45] [46] 2011 Mississippi River floods ...
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The 2011 Mississippi River floods began to become serious in April. In response, the Corps first analyzed the flooding, and then opened the spillway in a controlled manner. The Corps studied four flooding scenarios, all of which assumed the Bonnet Carré Spillway would be concurrently operating at full capacity (100%).
A series of flood control reservoirs backed up by massive dams is a key factor driving the high water currently swelling the Missouri River. ... from Gavins Point to its mouth at the Mississippi ...
The gap also permits backwater flooding in the lower portion of the floodway. The floodway is designed to divert 550,000 cu ft/s (16,000 m 3 /s) from the Mississippi River during the "project design flood" hypothetical flood event. At this flow the level of the Mississippi River will drop 7 feet (2.1 m) at Cairo.
Iowa cities along the Mississippi River are enduring flooding this week as water moves downstream from parts of Minnesota and Wisconsin hit by the same late June storm system that sent northwest ...