My heart broke right along with the levee this morning. Farmer and DeKalb/Asgrow field advisor Jeff Hedges relayed the picture all too clearly by cell phone from river’s edge near Oakville, Iowa ...

A federal judge on Friday gave the Army Corps of Engineers the go-ahead to intentionally break a Mississippi River levee in southeastern Missouri to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town just ...

Levee Breaks Along Mississippi River in Flood-Ravaged Region, Bridge Closed. By Fox News. Published June 17, 2008 3:59pm EDT | Updated January 13, 2015 11:53pm EST. Facebook ...

U.S. Geological Survey. (2011, May 6). How does the Mississippi River change when the levee breaks?. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2011 / 05 ...

ST. LOUIS -- Authorities urged residents to evacuate a small Missouri River town and halted traffic along a busy section of the Mississippi River near St. Louis on Wednesday, as relentless rain ...

A saltwater wedge has crept along the river bottom nearly 64 miles upriver from the mouth of the Mississippi. "It's almost like a triangle," Jones says. "As this flow in the Mississippi River ...

The US Army Corps of Engineers has launched construction on a 1,500-foot-wide underwater levee in the Mississippi River to prevent saltwater from pushing up the river amid record-low river levels ...

Mississippi River crests 12 feet above flood stage south of St. Louis 02:23. The Len Small levee in the far southwestern tip of Illinois protects the towns of Olive Branch, Hodges Park, Unity and ...

Along the mighty Mississippi River, rising waters carry musical echoes of the river's long history of floods. Many of those sonic tributaries reach back to perhaps the worst one in U.S. history ...

An emergency barrier sill built underwater near Myrtle Grove, La., has halted a wedge of salt traveling up the Mississippi River that has come perilously close to local drinking water intakes.