By - Associated Press - Monday, April 12, 2021
MISSOULA, Mont. (AP) - A car speeding in the wrong lane with its headlights off collided with another car on a bridge over the Clark Fork River in Missoula, killing the two men in the speeding car, police Sgt. Mike Hebert said.
The crash happened at 11:15 p.m. Saturday, closing the Russell Street Bridge for about five hours, ABC Fox Montana reported.
The men died at the scene. Their names have not been released.
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Tracy Campbell, Storm Water Regulatory Compliance Manager has details.
“Levees here in downtown Missoula protect downtown from flooding, and so they are what we call accredited levees by the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” said Campbell. “They provide the area behind the levees on the north side, primarily downtown area with protection and those properties can then receive reduced flood insurance rates because they re in what s called a FEMA Zone X.”
Campbell said the vegetation maintenance is required by statute.
“We need to maintain our levees to the Army Corps standards,” she said. “We re going to be removing some of the large diameter trees which when they fall can end up disturbing the banks and affecting the stability of the levees. So we ll be removing some of the large trees as well as non native vegetation and we re going to encourage native shrubs on the slopes.”
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Tracy Campbell, Storm Water Regulatory Compliance Manager has details.
“Levees here in downtown Missoula protect downtown from flooding, and so they are what we call accredited levees by the Federal Emergency Management Agency,” said Campbell. “They provide the area behind the levees on the north side, primarily downtown area with protection and those properties can then receive reduced flood insurance rates because they re in what s called a FEMA Zone X.”
Campbell said the vegetation maintenance is required by statute.
“We need to maintain our levees to the Army Corps standards,” she said. “We re going to be removing some of the large diameter trees which when they fall can end up disturbing the banks and affecting the stability of the levees. So we ll be removing some of the large trees as well as non native vegetation and we re going to encourage native shrubs on the slopes.”