U.S. Army Corps Blasts Mississippi Levee to Divert Flooding - Bloomberg: "The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blasted a Mississippi River levee to divert water onto more than 200 square miles of Missouri farmland to prevent flooding that threatened to destroy the nearby city of Cairo, Illinois.
Engineers detonated a section of the levee to create a gap as wide as 11,000 feet (3,353 meters), Jim Pogue, a spokesman, said by telephone from the site. Water spilled onto 130,000 acres of farmland that includes about 100 evacuated homes, easing the flood risk for 2,800 residents of Cairo, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers."
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