Missouri River News - September 19, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/opinion/13tue1.html
“Editorial: Katrina’s message on the Corps.” New York Times, 13 September 2005.
Christopher Bond of Missouri, who controls the corps's budget and has single-handedly kept alive a nonessential barge industry on the Missouri River at great cost to the environment and taxpayers. To discipline the corps, Congress must first discipline itself.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050913/OPINION01/509130362/1035
David Yepsen. “Opinion: Steve King is neither courageous nor heartless.” Des Moines Register, 13 September 2005.
Perhaps they should quit expecting so much federal money for farm bills, Missouri River projects and things like turning U.S. Highway 20 into a four-lane road.
http://www.willistonherald.com/articles/2005/09/14/news/news2.txt
LeAnn Eckroth. “Williston City Commission Meeting.” Williston Herald, 14 September 2005.
Howard Paul of the Missouri Sedimentation Action Coalition urged the city to join the organization at an annual fee of $2,500. The matter was tabled for further discussion. The group's goal is to organize and raise funds to alleviate sedimentation-caused problems in the Missouri River.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/12653913.htm
Cheryl Wittenauer. “Emergency officials: Katrina illustrates importance of being ready.” Kansas City Star, 15 September 2005.
But the most catastrophic damage was in west St. Louis County, when the Monarch Levee holding the Missouri River from the Chesterfield Valley gave way. Damage to homes and businesses was in the millions of dollars, though the water's rise was slow enough that no one was killed. Still, it took several months before the water was completely removed.
*appears in the Aberdeen American News, 17 September 2005.
*appears in the Grand Forks Herald, 17 September 2005.
*appears in the Wichita Eagle, 17 September 2005.
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?4176a361-2ddf-4dea-ad9e-2b24ce83f0d8
John Berlau. “Greens vs. Levees.” Hawaiian Report, 15 September 2005.
The Army Corps of Engineers under Clinton began implementing a planned “spring rise” of the Missouri River that would raise water levels on the Missouri River during part of the year. This was supported by eco-groups, who argued that this restored the river’s natural flows and protected a bird called the piping plover.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/special_packages/star_history/12568784.htm
Eric Pamer. “Kansas City industry.” Kansas City Star, 18 September 2005.
In some ways, Kansas City began with transportation. At the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri rivers, it was a natural place to establish trade with the Indians.
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2005/09/19/news/13113.shtml
Jack O'Connor. “CEE professor Smith saw threat to New Orleans.” Daily Princetonian, 19 September 2005.
Smith said the Atchafalaya channel, along with the extensive levee system surrounding New Orleans and the damming of the Missouri River, prevented sediment from flowing into the Mississippi River delta below New Orleans.
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050919/NEWS01/509190303/1002
Kim Skornogoski. “Is Montana ready for the worst? Great Falls Tribune, 19 September 2005.
Within hours, a surge of water is flooding the Missouri and Sun rivers, flooding homes in Cascade and carrying debris that knocks out bridges.
Max Post Van Der Burg. “Threat to Platte wildlife grows as habitat disappears.” Lincoln Star Journal, 19 September 2005.
"For the stretch of the Missouri downstream from Gavins Point Dam, the Platte is virtually the only tributary that retains any of the spawning habitat that pallid sturgeon use or seem to be looking for," said Dr. Ed Peters, a fisheries biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "But if the Missouri was the way it used to be, the Platte probably wouldn't be as important."