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Army expects full breach of Missouri River levee
06-13-11

 

The earthen levee that guards an area of farmland and ray ban wayfarer sunglasses small towns between Omaha, Neb., and Kansas City has been partially breached in at least two places south of the Iowa-Missouri border. And emergency management officials expect new breaches in the coming days as the river rises.

That means Hamburg could be ray ban sunglasses only the first of many communities to get hit.

The last time the Missouri River crested at levels predicted for this summer happened in 1952, before most of the major dams along the river were built.cheap ray ban sunglasses And the flooding is expected to last into mid-August.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will be releasing more water than it ever has from the dams by mid-June, meaning there likely will be other levee problems like the ones near Hamburg, ray ban sunglasses on sale said Kevin Grode with the corps' water management office.

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