Iowa Rushes to Combat Floodwaters

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* Hundreds of homes evacuated as river levels remain high

IOWA CITY, Iowa - Record-high floodwaters that brought misery to some of Iowa's smaller river towns may have helped spare Iowa City from cataclysmic flooding, but the lingering high level of the Iowa River is giving the city's flood protections a marathon test.

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Iowa Rushes to Combat Floodwaters

The river's crest arrived early and lower than expected, possibly because of a number of levee breaches downstream that opened the channel, the National Weather...

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