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Hosted by the Kansas City District of the U.S. Army Corps, several upcoming Eagle Days events celebrate how man-made lakes helped reverse the decline of the bald eagle. The birds come through the Kansas City region every winter.
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A series of virtual roundtable discussions are underway regarding the Waters of the United States definition. But the input might not change much about what comes next.
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Two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town.
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Segment 1: Embankments necessary for flood managment can also have adverse affects.Levees offer a sense of security but little regulation on their…
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It will probably be another week before the Missouri River at Parkville, Missouri, is back in its banks. The latest National Weather Service map predicts…
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Segment 1: Response and recovery to flooding in the Midwest.We hear regional reactions to the devastating flood waters now making their way through…
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Segment 1: Twenty-five years after the "Great Flood of 1993," is Kansas City any safer?Like most cities in the Missouri River basin, the danger of…
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Along with another day of rain in the Kansas City area, water levels continue to rise across Missouri, causing flooding and dozens of road closures. While…
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Kansas City's Woodswether Terminal on the Missouri River has seen the last of its barge traffic for the year. Port KC reopened the public port in 2015 (it…
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This spring, there's new life on the Missouri River - and it's more than buds on trees or fish in the water. Barge traffic may be on the verge of a…
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Twenty years ago this summer, monsoon-like rains, unseasonably heavy snowfall and unusual air pressure patterns combined to cause massive flooding across…
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In 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers faced infrastructure issues, farmland destruction and reservoir management challenges as it dealt with the aftermath…