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Birds Point Levee
2:56 pm
Thu October 20, 2011

Corps plans to rebuild Birds Point levee shorter than original height

Credit (via Flickr/NASA Earth Observatory)
Satellite images show the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway before (bottom) and after (top) the intentional breach of the levee.
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The Army Corps of Engineers now plans to rebuild the Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri to 55 feet, four feet higher than originally scheduled.

Even with the extra four feet, however, the levee is actually being rebuilt shorter than it was before it was intentionally breached to relieve flooding pressure on the Mississippi River.

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Conservation - Birds
6:00 pm
Tue October 4, 2011

New Audubon Center north of St. Louis will facilitate bird viewing along Mississippi River

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Credit (U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District)
The American white pelican is one of several large birds that use the Mississippi Flyway as a migration route.
Credit (Véronique LaCapra, St. Louis Public Radio)
The new Audubon Center at the Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary in West Alton.
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The Riverlands Migratory Bird Sanctuary is opening a new information center overlooking the Mississippi River in West Alton.

Riverlands program manager Charlie Deutsch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says the 3,700-acre sanctuary attracts tens of thousands of migratory birds every year.

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Missouri river flood reduction
11:58 am
Wed September 28, 2011

Reduction in Missouri River flow ahead of schedule

Credit (via Flickr/Kansas City District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/Susan Abbott )
Missouri River flooding between Rulo, Neb. and Waverly, Neb.
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The Army Corps of Engineers says flooding along the Missouri River in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri should end a few days sooner than predicted.

The Corps has been gradually reducing the amount of water being released from the six dams upstream since Aug. 19. Throughout the summer, roughly 160,000 cubic feet of water per second was being released from the dam near Yankton, S.D. creating flooding along the entire lower Missouri River.

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