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The flooding closed a number of roads in Missouri around the Meramec River, and threatened to force the closure of Interstate 44 at Valley Park. [10] Unlike the Great Flood of 1993, which affected this same region, the majority of homes and businesses in Valley Park were protected from the flooding by a new levee built in 2005. [10]
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
The Meramec River (/ ˈ m ɛr ɪ m æ k /), sometimes spelled Maramec River (the original US mapping spelled it Maramec but later changed it to Meramec), is one of the longest free-flowing waterways in the U.S. state of Missouri, draining 3,980 square miles (10,300 km 2) [2] while wandering 218 miles (351 km) [3] from headwaters southeast of Salem to where it empties into the Mississippi River ...
Meanwhile, the weather service predicts that the Missouri River will rise above flood stage, 25 feet, Tuesday afternoon in Parkville and crest at 27.7 feet early Friday. As of 8:45 a.m., the river ...
The 1973 flood was the first time the Morganza Spillway was opened: from April 19 through June 13. At Memphis, Tennessee, the Mississippi was over flood stage for 63 days, more than that of the historic 1927 flood, and the river was above flood stage for an even longer 107 days at upstream Cairo, Illinois. [3]
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June 15, 2011 at 8:11 PM. A series of flood control reservoirs backed up by massive dams is a key factor driving the high water currently swelling the Missouri River. The abnormally high flow on ...
Fenton is located approximately two miles south of I-44 along the west bank of the Meramec River. The intersection of Missouri routes 30 and 141 lies just to the west. [6] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 6.38 square miles (16.52 km 2), of which 6.05 square miles (15.67 km 2) is land and 0.33 square ...