What To Do With Used Sandbags?
June 29, 2008 | MSNBC
Used sandbags stink. They have been in contact with sewage, farm runoff and many other contaminants. They have been wet and a substrate for molds and other nasty growths. What can be done with them? Midwest cities now face this huge disposal problem.
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Mosquito Outbreak in Midwest?
June 27, 2008 | National Geographic News
After the flooding in the Midwest, stagnant waters will be a good breeding ground for mosquitoes. There is concern that this may lead to a greater number of West Nile infections.
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Cleaning Up After the Flood
June 22, 2008 | MSNBC
Waters are going down in the upper part of the Mississippi River basin. Now people in parts of Iowa and Illinois are starting to clean up and repair flood damage.
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Midwest Floods Visible From Space
June 20, 2008 | Geology.com
Flooding continues in the Midwest United States with some rivers being above flood stage for over two straight weeks. Satellite images of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri show large lakes where levee breaks have flooded hundreds of acres.
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Land Use Choices and Iowa Flooding
June 20, 2008 | MSN
How people use the land can have a dramatic impact on the response of streams to flooding. This could cause 500 year flood levels to be produced by events of lesser magnitude.
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Mississippi River Levees Overtopped
June 19, 2008 | Quad-Cities Online
The Army Corps of Engineers has a new map showing that 12 of their Mississippi River levees between Muscatine, Iowa, and Quincy, Illinois have been overtopped and twenty more are at risk of overtopping.
View the Corps of Engineers Map (.pdf)
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Iowa Flood: What’s in the Water?
June 17, 2008 | MSN
Iowa flood victims have seen their homes, properties and business covered with flood waters. Some of those waters were contaminated with sewage, chemicals and fuels.
Iowa Flooding Updates
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Flooding in Iowa and the Midwest
June 13, 2008 | Geology.com
During the last two weeks Iowa and much of the Midwest has been hit with one heavy storm after another. Some areas have received over 16 inches of rain and streams are now at record levels. On this page are a few videos, and news reports that provide information on rainfall, stream levels and flooding.
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Ceder River at Cedar Rapids, Iowa Hits 500-Year Level
June 12, 2008 | Fox News
Flood waters from the Cedar River in east central Iowa have overtopped some flood control levees, pouring water into areas that people thought were “protected”. About 100 blocks of Cedar Rapids are underwater.
Cedar Rapids Evacuation Order Video
USGS Stream Levels in Iowa
Added: The USGS gauge at Cedar Rapids is offline. From USGS: “Transmission of the information from the streamgage was abruptly interrupted last night when power to the downtown Cedar Rapids area was cut off because of safety concerns due to the flooding and the backup system failed. “
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Iowa Flooding and Stream Levels
June 12, 2008 | MSN
After heavy rains, Iowa’s Cedar River is at record high flood levels. The link above will take you to a news story on the MSN website.
This link will take you to a USGS map with dots representing stream gages across the state. Clicking on a dot will yield stream flow conditions at that location.
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Tornado Hits Boy Scout Camp in Iowa
June 12, 2008 | MSNBC
Four people were killed and forty injured when a tornado in western Iowa struck the Little Sioux Boy Scout Ranch. Most of the injured were on a hike when the storm hit and out in the open without protection.
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Heavy Rain, Tornadoes and Flooding in the Midwest
June 10, 2008 | Earth Observatory
Severe storms with high winds, hail, tornadoes and very heavy rain hit the US midwest this weekend. Up to 11 inches of rain caused flooding in Indiana, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan and other states. Earth Observatory has more details and a rainfall intensity map.
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