Yeah, everyone up in my hometown are most concerned about the Ft. Peck dam. Right now, Corps of Engineers inundation maps show floodwaters coming up to the levee right outside of town. If Ft. Peck fails, the town will have 3 feet of water in it.IraGlacialis wrote: The thing that is making me nervous is the Ft. Peck Dam. From what the report states, it isn't a matter of 'if' but 'when'. If it goes, there will be repercussions not just along the Missouri, but all the way to New Orleans. If it holds, hopefully, it will be a wake-up call to overhaul our dams and levees, if not outright removing some of them in pertinent locations.
In addition, if the Ft. Peck dam fails, Kansas City will probably see water inundate the land all around the Iatan power plant; and flood the Keebler and GM plants in KCKS; Charles Wheeler airport; the east bottoms including the Bayer plant; the Argosy and Ameristar casinos, and the Harrah's will be cut off from the Chouteau Trafficway. The levees near the Paseo Bridge that protect North Kansas City might fail as well from the pressure.