So far, railroads and trucking firms are being forced to make the most serious adjustments.
They’ve worked all month to protect tracks — in one instance raising the rails as much as 5 feet and building levees on both sides of the line — to keep coal, automobiles and parts, consumer goods and other freight moving south toward Kansas City and elsewhere. BNSF Railway has rerouted coal shipments bound for Kansas City through Colorado and western Kansas because its line from Nebraska was flooded.
Railroad traffic coordinators have rerouted around other flooded rail lines and halted service to some markets, including St. Joseph, for fear of trapping rail cars behind flooded tracks.
Planners are evaluating routes farther down river in anticipation of flooding in the days ahead.
“We just don’t know how high it’s going to get,” said Mark Davis, a spokesman at Union Pacific Corp.’s Omaha headquarters.
For trucking companies, the stretch of Interstate 29 closed by high water north of Rockport, Mo., has prompted a detour that adds scores of miles to the trip from Kansas City to Omaha. Traffic is being rerouted up Interstate 35 to Interstate 80 near Des Moines and then west Omaha.
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Corps: Gavins Point Explosion Rumor ‘Crazy’
A YouTube video surfaced during the weekend from a man making the claim.
“The face of Gavins Point Dam is cracking,” the man says, before explaining that the Corps “or the military” has strung explosives along 25 percent of the structure. The explosives will be detonated this week to relieve pressure on the dam, he claims.
The rumor has circulated widely since the video’s appearance.
“I saw it,” U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District Commander Col. Bob Ruch said during a conference call Sunday evening. “Whether it’s a joke or a hoax, that’s what the Internet allows. If you want the truth, come to our webpage and sit in on these (conference calls). We’re not stringing explosives on the dam. It’s not cracking. It’s performing as designed.”
Also, Ruch also said during the call that there is a possibility that access to Chief White Crane Recreation Area, located on the east edge of Lake Yankton, could be closed off because of rising waters.
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NOAA Hydrologic - Water Level at Gavins Point Dam, near Ft. Calhoun and Cooper Nuclear Plants
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BLAIR, NEBRASKA NEAR FT. CALHOUN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT
BROWNVILLE, NE - NEAR COOPER NUCLEAR PLANT
RESERVOIR CONTROL CENTER REPORTS
Link to daily report:
The Cave's Archive: NW DIVISION OF THE US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS RESERVOIR CONTROL CENTER DAILY REPORT
Link: THE CAVE'S OVERFLOW - Archive of the Cave's Daily Flood of 2011 Updates
