MidWest floods of 1993

What took place?

• Severe flooding in the Mississippi River Basin

Impacts

• Barge traffic was stopped
• Roads and highways were closed
• Death

Predicting the damage

• Streamflow gaging stations
  - Provides data
  - Monitors different bodies of water
  - Collects water information

Controlling the damage

• Levees
  -Urban
  -Agricultural
  -Federal and non-federal
  -Overtopped and damaged

Social policies

• Ineffective
  - Everything happened after the flood

As a result...

• USGS streamflow gaging stations removed
• Flood relief increased
  -AmeriCorps
  -Washington Bank