News - Missouri River
Flooding along the Missouri River continues as shown in recent Landsat satellite images of the Nebraska and Iowa border.
Landsat 5 captured an image of flooding occurring along the Iowa/Nebraska border on June 30, 2011.
Threats of more flooding will continue throughout the summer as many rivers in the upper Midwest and northern Plains remain above flood state, warned forecasters at NOAA’s National Weather Service on Wednesday.
GREAT FALLS, Mont., June 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The expansion of PPL Montana's Rainbow hydroelectric plant is more than 60 percent complete and on schedule despite the record rainfall this spring and continuing high flows on the Missouri River. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110614/NE19852 ) "Crews working at the construction site recently embedded all of the major turbine components in concrete, a key milestone in the $230 million expansion project at Rainbow," said Pete Simonich, vice president and chief operating officer of PPL Montana.
SERGEANT BLUFF, Iowa, June 6, 2011/PRNewswire/ -- Long Lines is a communication company, but with its home turf threatened by devastating flood waters, Long Lines employees look more like focused military operatives than telephone repairmen and technicians.
