HAMBURG — Federal and state military units continue to raise the level of an emergency levee in an effort to save Hamburg, Iowa, from Missouri Fiver floodwaters. The work to shore up the levee got an added urgency as parts of the regular levees along the Missouri River in Atchison County, Mo., broke. At Tuesday night’s press conference, Col. Robert Ruch, commandant of the Corps’ Omaha District, said another breach occurred in a main levee near Hamburg. The Corps deliberately breached another levee to relief the pressure of flood waters on the emergency levee at Hamburg and to drain flood waters back into the Missouri, he said. Computer modeling showed that the deliberate breach should help efforts to save Hamburg, he said. The Missouri River, which is at near historic levels and will remain so for possibly weeks, threatens communities in Kansas and Missouri between the Iowa line and Kansas City.
Wednesday, June 15, 4 p.m.
