Thursday, January 20, 2011

Could Be More Floods More Often

An Army Corps of Engineers study says the Des Moines River's rising higher and more often. That means floods, like '93, '08, ands last year, are more like than they thought. The corps asked for funds for the study to look at the river at the Saylorville Lake and Lake Red Rock reservoirs after the 2008 floods. A spokesperson says the reservoirs were built using flow data that's pre 1960's. The current flow rate's up since 1993.

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