Science Bulletins: Mississippi Floods Leave Historic Wake

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Channel: American Museum of Natural History · 2012 · Science & Technology

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Once a meandering river, the Mississippi is now constrained by development and levees lining its banks, leaving communities vulnerable during extreme high-water periods. The floods in May and June 2011 were the worst since 1927.

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