The high water is due to the quick melting of a giant snowpack in northern Minnesota that is slowly moving down the approximately 2,300-mile (3,700-kilometer) river that will ultimately empty into the Gulf of Mexico.
“They have kind of become experts in the flood fight,” Gallagher said of Davenport.
The flooding has forced the Army Corps of Engineers to close more than a dozen locks, stopping barges relied upon by farmers and the region’s manufacturers. “We’re expecting this to be a relatively quick flood,” Smith said Drew Smith, with the Army Corps of Engineers in St. Louis.
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