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Hamburg was formally laid out in 1857 at the behest of Augustus Borchers (August Heinrich B., August 26, 1817, Harburg near Hamburg, Germany - November 23, 1885, Hamburg (Ia.)) [6] who named for the German city and was formally incorporated on April 1, 1867 at about the same time as it was reached by the Council Bluffs and St. Joseph Railroad.
On July 1, the privately owned Vanmann #30 levee at Mile Marker 637 to 637.5 on the Iowa side, about 10 river miles south of the reactor, was blown up by the local levee authority. The levee destruction was done to alleviate flooding in a bend of the river where water was pooling on cropland and creating an enormous water pool directly opposite ...
But Weber said Iowa could fund much of the work with a sales tax increase. In 2010, voters approved a referendum to dedicate three-eighths of a penny of the next sales tax increase, or 37.5%, to ...
About 4 miles south of Smithland, near the town of Rodney, the Nagel District maintains a vulnerable levee segment. Like nearly half of the other levees inspected in Iowa, according to the U.S ...
Western Iowa suffered severe impacts, especially in the Missouri River Valley south of Council Bluffs. There, at least 30 levee failures flooded towns and highways. [30] In Hamburg, two-thirds of the town was underwater when the bomb cyclone hit. [31] The town lost sewage and gas services, according to city officials. [32]
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The Nishnabotna River (/ n ɪ ʃ n ə ˈ b ɑː t n ə /) is a tributary of the Missouri River in southwestern Iowa, northwestern Missouri and southeastern Nebraska in the United States. It flows for most of its length as two parallel streams in Iowa, the East Nishnabotna River and the West Nishnabotna River. The east and west branches are each ...
High flow released at Gavins Point effects river banks in South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas. ... and threatened to send floodwaters into the nearby town of Hamburg, Iowa.