The Mississippi river level is now declining. This comes after the US officials made a hole on Monday night in a Mississippi River levee to relieve a flood threat.
The Army Corps of Engineers breached the levee in an effort to save the town of Cairo, Illinois, on the cost of sacrificing the farmland across the river in Missouri.Cairo, Illinois town at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and is of about 3,000 inhabitants.
The US says farmers whose land was flooded and who had crop insurance will be reimbursed. Homes as many as 100 were damaged or destroyed, and the water washed away crop prospects for the year.
This action makes use of floodways - vast basins of land surrounded by levees that can be opened to divert flooding elsewhere. This action is intended to lessen the pressure on the flood wall over the town, and relieve the flood risk further down the Mississippi River.
Farmland of about 200 sq miles of area were under water on Tuesday after the hole in that Mississippi River levee was made.
According to the US Officials this decision is not easy or hard, but it's simply grave - because the decision leads to loss of property and livelihood, either in a flood-way or in an area that was not designed to flood. It could be late summer or early autumn before the submerged land fully drains.
On their side the National Weather Service expects record flooding further down in the Mississippi River valley in the next few weeks.
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