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The Little Sioux River crested at 30.7 feet at 9 p.m. Monday in Correctionville, about 1.5 feet above the record, according to the National Water Prediction Service. It was at 29 feet Tuesday morning.
The Little Sioux River tore through the bottom of the town, destroying at least two homes, flooding soybean fields and a public park. The river raged so loudly that it sounded like white-water rapids.
The Little Sioux River was known as Eaneah-waudepon or "Stone River" to the Sioux Indians. Its tributaries include the Ocheyedan River, Maple River and the West Fork of the Little Sioux River. The Little Sioux River is integral to the Nepper Watershed Project, a major Iowa flood control and soil conservation program that was introduced in 1947. [2]
The Big Sioux River at Riverside in Sioux City crested at 45 feet around 8 a.m. Monday morning — seven feet higher than the previous record of 37.7 feet, according to a news release from Sioux City.
The Big Sioux River is forecasted to break a record of 42.2 feet by Monday afternoon, Noem said. Meanwhile, Minnesota flooding left “entire communities under feet of water,” Governor Tim Walz ...
There were enough rain and river swelling in the Des Moines, Rock and Little Sioux rivers, among others, to break flood level records at 16 locations in Iowa, Reynolds said.
The river was named after the Lakota people [5] which was known by them as Tehankasandata, or Thick Wooded River. [6] The Big Sioux River rises in Roberts County, South Dakota, [4] on a low plateau known as the Coteau des Prairies and flows generally southwardly through Grant, Codington, Hamlin, Brookings, Moody, and Minnehaha counties, past ...
Dux said that in some places, water rose to record levels in a short timeframe, in particular the Little Sioux River near Spencer, which has risen to 20 feet from 9 1/2 feet, and the Big Sioux ...