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Floodplain restoration is the process of fully or partially restoring a river's floodplain to its original conditions before having been affected by the construction of levees (dikes) and the draining of wetlands and marshes.
“The 200 diseases known as cancer collectively represent a leading cause of death and suffering and will claim the lives of more than 600,000 Americans this year,” said Dr. Karen E. Knudsen ...
This included a hospital with one hundred patients and doctors. The Coast Guard continued to rescue trapped citizens on June 8. In Franklin, Indiana [10] water rose as high as the first floor of Johnson Memorial Hospital. [11] Doctors and patients were also evacuated from Columbus Regional Hospital in Columbus, Indiana. The hospital had to ...
The study, conducted by the Illinois State Cancer Registry, a division of the state Department of Public Health, analyzed 952 cancer cases from 1994 to 2006. [119] The IDPH report did not implicate the contaminated municipal well or exposure to the village's contaminated water as a reason for the elevated incidence of cancer in Crestwood.
Ameren Illinois is working to restore power to nearly 2,000 people in Cahokia Heights, which had the largest power outage in the region, according to Ameren Illinois spokesman Brian Bretsch.
Flooding from a heavy rainstorm Tuesday in southwest Illinois damaged houses and cars, closed roads, forced the evacuation of a nursing home and eroded part of a levee, according to community leaders.
The consumption of polluted water leads to many deaths. In the year 2015, 1.8 million people world wide died because of water pollution and over 1 billion people became ill. [8] Low-income and third-world communities are especially endangered, because they often live close to industries with high emission. [8]
The rising Mississippi River tested flood defenses in southeast Iowa and northwest Illinois as it neared forecast crests in the area Monday, driven by a spring surge of water from melting snow.