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Title
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KC-area Levees Protect, But They Take Lots of Time, Money
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Description
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Kansas City's eight federal levees are located at Argentine, Armourdale, Birmingham, Central Industrial District, East Bottoms, Fairfax-Jeresey, North Kansas City, and Riverside. The article gives a brief history of levee construction and projects over the years.
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2011-08-29
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Flood Heads This Way
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Description
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Residents of Parkville, Missouri, piled up sandbags in preparation of flood waters that could surpass the records set in the 1993 flood. Includes a sidebar "Flood Forecast" which has a map and figures of water stages and the forecast for 2011 plus record crest and year for nine cities along the Missouri River.
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Date
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2011-06-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Corps Promises Changes
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Description
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"Under pressure from Congress and states, the Army Corps of Engineers said Monday that it will change its approach to operating Missouri River dams with the aim of reducing prospects for future flooding." The corps has come under criticism for placing species restoration and recreation over flood protection. The record flooding of 2011 was caused by "freakish rains and heavy snowmelt in the basin's western reaches" that "filled the river with more water than at any time since record-keeping began."
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Date
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2011-11-08
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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20 Years Later, We Dread the Next Flood
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Description
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Article focuses upon remembrance of the flood that impacted the Kansas City area during the summer of 1993. Business and property owners in the affected areas are interviewed and discuss both their recollections and fear of future floods. Representatives from the Army Corps of Engineers and other river management agencies are interviewed and discuss past projects aimed at improving flood control in the area and risk factors that may lead to similar flood disasters.
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2013-06-09
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Troubled Times for the Big Muddy
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Description
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Article on the continuously dropping river bed and water levels of the Missouri River. The system of dikes and reservoirs "that helped keep the Missouri River channel locked in place," and the effects of commercial dredging, drought, and flooding have contributed to the problem by scouring the river bed. River degradation poses challenges to utilities that draw power and drinking water from the river, as well as the structural integrity of bridges and levees and the water and bed levels of connecting tributaries.
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Date
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2014-01-21
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Lt. Gen. Lewis Pick Dies: Former Chief of Army Engineers Was 66
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Description
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Photo and obituary for Lieutenant General Lewis Pick, "retired, former chief of Army engineers and the prime architect of the multi-billion-dollar Pick-Sloan program for the Missouri river basin development," dying at the age of 66 in 1956. Native of Virginia serving in World War I becoming a leading military engineer on the Missouri River during World War II and leading promoter of dam construction on the river following the 1951 flood.
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1956-12-03
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
