Officials Continue to Scramble to Raise Levees

     DAKOTA DUNES, S.D. (AP) - Trucks worked through the night
hauling dirt to raise levees protecting the southeast South Dakota
city of Dakota Dunes from a rising Missouri River.
     Many of the community's 2,500 residents were packing up and
preparing to leave on the suggestion of the governor.
     State spokeswoman Beth Hermanson said Wednesday that officials
hope to have most of the levee work done by Saturday in preparation
for even higher discharges from Gavins Point Dam upstream. The Army
Corps of Engineers is releasing more water through all of the
Missouri River dams because of heavy rain and snowmelt.
     Hermanson said the narrow streets and traffic congestion in
Dakota Dunes are complicating the process of getting dirt trucks to
the levees.
     Eighty prison inmates and 200 National Guard members are filling
sandbags for homeowners.