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USACE to repair the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee May 4, 2021, by Zlatan Hrvacevic The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Omaha District, in conjunction with the city of Hamburg, Iowa, will tomorrow (May 5) conduct a groundbreaking ceremony to kickoff construction to rehabilitate the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee. “I’m excited to join Mayor Cathy Crain and the city of Hamburg on this important project agreement to raise flood protection around the city of Hamburg,” said Col. Mark Himes, Commander, USACE-Omaha. “I look forward to working with the city in the upcoming construction.” USACE and the city of Hamburg signed the Section 1176 project agreement Feb. 9 to allow raising the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee eight feet, significantly increasing the flood risk management benefits the levee provides to the city. ....
celebration as a levee overtopped two years ago is rebuilt; this time a bit higher. will join with city leaders from Hamburg to break ground tomorrow morning on a rebuild that will raise the levee protecting Hamburg, Iowa another eight feet. Project Manager Andrew Winslow says the Missouri River flood of 2019 hit Hamburg hard. “It was a horrible situation, the way they got flooded in the spring of 2019, right? A lot of businesses, private homes, city facilities were damaged,” Winslow tells St. Joseph Post. Hamburg NAPA store during flood of 2019/File photo The Corps is only allowed to rebuild a levee to its pre-flood ....
In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasn t enough time to build the levee higher before the 2019 flood, like the Corps of Engineers did in 2011. Katie Peikes / Harvest Public Media Originally published on April 13, 2021 12:28 pm Levees protect people, towns, and agriculture from flooding. But two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town. Listen / Hamburg in southwest Iowa sits five miles from the Missouri River, sandwiched between it and the Nishnabotna River. Just outside of town, the Ditch 6 levee stretches for a mile and a half, shielding the town of 1,100 people from runoff from the Loess Hills to the north and east. Built in 1998, it also serves as a secondary line of defense for Hamburg’s industri ....
Listen • 4:31 In spring 2019, floodwaters spilled over the top of the Ditch 6 levee and submerged most of Hamburg, Iowa. There wasn t enough time to build the levee higher before the 2019 flood, like the Corps of Engineers did in 2011. Two years ago, parts of the Missouri River and its tributaries reached record crests, and many levees failed. Now there’s a rare effort to build a levee higher to better defend one southwest Iowa town. Hamburg, Iowa, sits five miles from the Missouri River, sandwiched between it and the Nishnabotna River. Just outside of town, the Ditch 6 levee stretches for a mile and a half, shielding the town of 1,100 people from runoff from the Loess Hills to the north and east. Built in 1998, it also serves as a secondary line of defense for Hamburg’s industrial buildings and homes if a main levee along the Missouri River is overtopped or breached. ....
February 26, 2021 By Waterways Journal The Omaha Engineer District and the city of Hamburg, Iowa, signed a Section 1176 project agreement February 10 that will allow for raising the Hamburg Ditch 6 levee 8 feet, significantly increasing the benefits the levee provides to the city. The agreement came after the Omaha District, city and other stakeholders worked with Corps Headquarters and the Northwestern Engineer Division to implement the Section 1176 authority from the 2020 Water Resources Development Act. This is the first project across the nation to utilize the Section 1176 authority to raise the height of a federal levee system. “I’m excited to join Mayor Cathy Crain and the city of Hamburg on this important project agreement to raise flood protection around the city of Hamburg,” said Col. Mark Himes, commander of the Omaha district. “I look forward to working with the city in the upc ....