PERCIVAL, Iowa (AP) - Authorities are reporting that a Missouri
River levee has failed near Percival in southwest Iowa.
The National Weather Service says the breach occurred Thursday
morning a mile northwest of Percival in Fremont County.
Local emergency officials told the weather service that the
breach is expected to flood only previously evacuated areas between
Interstate 29 and the river. Percival sits just east of the
interstate.
National Weather Service forecaster Josh Boustead says the
breach was discovered after the river level downstream at
Nebraska City dropped about 6 inches this morning to 27.6 feet. The
breach occurred shortly before 4 a.m.
Boustead says the breach was roughly 100-to-150-feet-wide
Thursday morning.
Percival is about 16 miles northwest of Hamburg, which had to
build a secondary levee earlier this month after earlier breaches.
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AP-NY-06-30-11 1001EDT
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