https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/06/11/mississippi-flood-rebuilding
Jun 11, 2025 - On Thanksgiving Day, 2024, Anderson Jones had something to be grateful for. He finally made it home. Five years earlier, the sandbag levee protecting his...
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https://www.fox5atlanta.com/weather/mississippi-river-to-reach-flood-stage-in-memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Officials are predicting minor flooding as the Mississippi River reaches flood stage and beyond in Memphis, but no homes or businesses...
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https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/06/10/mississippi-river-flood-control
Jun 10, 2025 - For more than 80 years, residents of Mississippi’s Yazoo Backwater have been banking on a pumping project to protect their farms and homes from floods. The...
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150320155650.htm
A controversial decision in 2011 to blow up Mississippi River levees reduced the risk of flooding in a city upstream, lowering the height of the rain-swollen...
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