Other southern Missouri and IL towns were getting ready for the high-water mark.
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Residents near High Ridge, Mo. are being told to conserve water after a water treatment center shut down from overflow of the Meramec River. On Wednesday afternoon, sandbagging efforts were performed on I-55 in an effort to keep a second major metropolitan route from closing. He said about 2,000 people in Eureka were cut off due to flooded roads.
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The project has turned “the third largest watershed on the planet into the greatest river basin in the world”, George Grugett, executive vice president of the Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association, wrote in 2012.
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Ameren Missouri said about 1,300 customers along the Meramec lost power or had to be disconnected.
While the smaller tributaries of the MS will crest quickly following the tremendous rainfall from the storms near Christmas, the larger tributaries and the MS itself will take an extended period of time to crest and then fall below flood stage.
Nine levees – five on the Mississippi River, three on the Missouri and one on Illinois’ Kaskaskia River – were topped by water, but those earthen barriers protect farmland and otherwise unpopulated areas.
Walker spoke to a reporter as the river level at Melvin Price Locks and Dam 26 had stabilized at 35 feet plus varying fractions that fluctuated slightly throughout the day. “And we’re out there not only trying to manage a situation, but to save lives”.
Officials have yet to assess the human and monetary damage of the current floods, with waterways still stretching far beyond their banks and families displaced.
But a spokeswoman for the Department of Transportation told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1YTOKkk ) the detours are temporary to move in more equipment for flood-fighting. “It will be millions”.
“We’re moving things up high and we’ve got our generators out and got some extra water”, said Dotty Kirkendoll, a clerk at Riverside Park Marina on McKellar Lake, which feeds off the Mississippi River. Numbers were unavailable Thursday from Jefferson County.
“The flooding along the Meramec shattered records, coming in more than 4 feet above previous records set in 1982”, Maria says.
Pennise said the corps is confident the levee, built in 2007, is safe, but ordered evacuations as a precaution. Gen. Steve Danner, adjutant general of the Missouri National Guard. “They don’t have to worry about their drinking water”.
The Mississippi River was forecast to crest in the city of St. Louis late Thursday at more than 12 feet (3.8 meters) above flood stage. It could be January 7 before the St. Louis area sees another round of rain or snow.
Water rose to the rooftops of some structures in Missouri towns and two rivers west of St. Louis crested at historic levels, flooding towns, disabling sewer plants and forcing hundreds of residents from their homes. And it appears that the MS will be about seven and a-half feet below the 1993 record in St. Louis, where a floodwall offers solid protection.
Despite the falling water, transportation remained hard around St. Louis. Many downtown merchants had cleared out, just to be on the safe side, in case the levee gave way.
The southbound lanes have high levels of water covering the road and there is no estimate yet on when that water will recede so the southbound lanes can open.
Downstream in Arnold, there was plenty of weariness.
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