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Dalrymple said the plan would create an additional 750,000 acre-feet of storage space, and mark the first step in a more aggressive long-term flood-control policy.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

Unlike the Mississippi River, where the Corps has relatively little control over the volume of water entering the river, the Missouri River is controlled by six giant flood-control reservoirs built from the 1930s to the mid-1960s.

A Summer of Sandbags on the Missouri Joe Barrett 2011

The Missouri River is experiencing heavy flooding as the Corps moves to release water from its system of six flood-control reservoirs in Montana and the Dakotas.

Missouri River Breaches Levee, Threatens City Joe Barrett 2011

The Missouri River is experiencing heavy flooding as the Corps moves to release water from its system of six flood-control reservoirs in Montana and the Dakotas.

Missouri River Levee Breached 2011

Opponents counter that shutting the locks would undermine critical flood-control measures in the Chicago region, as well as cost barge, tour-boat and others billions of dollars in lost business.

Asian Carp Battle: Five States Make Final Pitches To Judge Over Chicago Shipping Locks AP 2010

"At this point, we're fighting for inches" by holding back water in some dams and using other flood-control measures, said Major Gen. Michael Walsh, who heads the Mississippi River Commission, a group of Army and civilian engineers charged by Congress with flood prevention and navigation improvements along the river.

Deadly Storms Hit South Joe Barrett 2011

Related Article Storms Delay Crucial Planting Season Out of that disaster came the Flood Control Act of 1928, which led to the nation's first comprehensive flood-control program.

Storms Take a Deadly Toll Ilan Brat 2011

Opponents counter that shutting the locks would undermine critical flood-control measures in the Chicago region, as well as cost barge, tour-boat and others billions of dollars in lost business.

Asian Carp Battle: Five States Make Final Pitches To Judge Over Chicago Shipping Locks AP 2010

The project resulted in levees that are by far the strongest in the country, along with other flood-control devices such as floodways, which are essentially parallel rivers that, by giving the river room to expand, lower the flood height in the main channel and thus ease pressure on levees.

Battling Nature on the River John M. Barry 2011

Opponents counter that shutting the locks would undermine critical flood-control measures in the Chicago region, as well as cost barge, tour-boat and others billions of dollars in lost business.

Asian Carp Battle: Five States Make Final Pitches To Judge Over Chicago Shipping Locks AP 2010