In the aftermath of the worst flooding in American history, the Clinton Administration is seriously considering proposals to convert entire towns and some large tracts of farmland to wetlands rather ...

31_I29TOUR_photo Id: 270006 A crawdad takes a defensive posture on Iowa Highway 2 in Iowa near the intersection of with I-29 east of Nebraska City, Neb., on Aug. 30, 2011. The highway and interstate ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This article was first published in 2018, for the 25th anniversary of flooding. More than 30 years ago, floods swept across Iowa from the Mississippi River to the Missouri River, ...

During one of the nation's costliest floods, one flood-prone community was sent scurrying after a levee gave way. On July 22, 1993, 32 years ago today, a section of an earthen levee along the ...

The flooded River Des Peres in 1993. Photo by Jerry Naunheim Jr. The day after Major Paul Nocchiero, of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, was promoted to captain he received another ...

ST. LOUIS -- Since the Great Flood of 1993, developers have taken a strong interest in the flood plains, the largest amount of open, private land left in the region. City officials and landowners have ...

Of all the memorable anecdotes to come out of Davenport during the Great Flood of 1993, then-mayor Pat Gibbs may have the crest. He was in the shower one soggy summer day in 1993 when his cell phone ...

ST. LOUIS -- Even with rivers pouring over their banks and more heavy rain in the forecast, comparisons to 1993 are premature, experts say. The Great Flood of 1993 bowled over levees, ripped away ...

A lot has changed around the Midwest since the Great Flood of 1993, when massive rains swelled creeks, streams and rivers. Flooding overtook more than 1,000 levees in nine Midwestern states. The ...

The flood fight feels similar to the Great Flood of 1993, when large swaths of downtown Davenport had been swallowed by the floodwaters. River Drive now lives up to its name, submerged by the ...

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