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Harvest Public Media
7:26 am
Mon June 25, 2012

Control Of Missouri River Divides Communities

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Jim Redmond, with the Northwest Iowa Sierra Club, stands along the Missouri River in Sioux City, Iowa. Redmond said the river could handle the rainfall of the 2011 flood, but not when it’s cutoff from the flood plain.
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Bill Smith, president of the Missouri Valley Waterfowlers Association, stands near homes built along the Missouri River. Smith is also a subcontractor and has worked on dozens of homes since last year’s flood.
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Iowa area farmer Brian Johnson stands on his neighbor’s farmland where river bottom sand and silt has piled up, sometimes as high as 20 feet.
Credit Clay Masters / Harvest Public Media
Soybeans planted in previously flooded areas near the Missouri River in Atchison County, Mo., poke up through the silt.
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Along a vast stretch of the Missouri River, the floodwaters that ravished homes, businesses and farms last year are not a distant memory. 

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Environment
8:19 am
Tue June 12, 2012

Farmers & Environmentalists Dispute Missouri River Plan

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Over 120 people crowded into a meeting room at the Lewis and Clark Building in Jefferson City for a hearing on the Jameson Island project on June 11, 2012
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The Army Corps of Engineers wants to build a new chute at Jameson Island designed to protect the pallid sturgeon and other native fish species.

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Headlines
8:03 am
Tue May 15, 2012

Top Of The Morning News: Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Despite a tax bill headed to the governor’s desk, tax negotiations continue in Kansas.  Rush Limbaugh is inducted to the Hall of Famous Missourians.  Report critics floor management on the Missouri River.  That and more news from KCUR.

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Central Standard
4:00 pm
Wed May 9, 2012

Boating & Fishing On KC Waters

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On  Thursday’s Central Standard, we embark on the next installment in our three-part series looking at how we find water in our city. This time we look to the lakes and rivers, where fishers cast their nets, canoes glide across the water and boaters set sail.

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Central Standard
12:59 pm
Wed December 14, 2011

Repairing Missouri River Levees

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Water flows from Missouri River over levee L-550
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Wednesday on Central Standard, we drive our proverbial Chevy to Missouri River levees, and ask where the funds went dry.

Our guest Jud Kneuvean, Chief of Emergency Management for the US Army Corps of Engineers, will tell us about their plans to fix 11 of the 68 Missouri River levees in time for the Spring, and how they determined the crucial sites for repairs.

Bridge Business
5:04 pm
Fri April 9, 2010

Drivers' Relief Nearing For Bridge Crossing

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Artist's rendition of Bond Bridge before construction began. View looking to southwest from northeast shore of Missouri River.
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Kansas City, Mo. – The new Missouri River bridge replacing the Paseo span will be close enough to completion to carry traffic by year's end.

MoDot will start shifting lanes of traffic from the Paseo to the Bond Bridge by fall. Highway officials say the Bond won't be finished until next year, but at least one northbound lane should be open by Christmas.

Most visible work now is installing cables hooking the highly visible pylon to the floor of the new bridge. The pylon stands more than 300 feet tall and supports the entire structure.

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