2008 Summer Midwest Floods

Reports

Federal Floods Policy Challenges: Congressional Research-Lessons from the 2008 Midwest Flood 02/09
1993 Gallaway Report - Sharing the Challenge: Floodplain Management into the 21st Century

Letters / Articles

ASFPM Letter to the Editor
A Flood of Unheeded Warnings
Floods Dredge Up Dispute
Midwest Flood Victims Feel Misled by Fed
Iowa Flooding Could Be An Act of Man
Violent Weather Spurs Redesign of Infrastructure

Article/News Story Links

• Better buffer than levees
• There Will Be Flood - Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His take on the news coverage of the midwest floods
• Follow the Silt
• Federal help not likely to be enough for flooded homeowners
• Ill. town finds life does go on after floods
• SCF analyzes Baraboo and Wisconsin Rivers amid June 2008 flooding
• Obama hits McCain on help for cities, levees
• ABC News - Will the levee hold? Floodplain development in Chesterfield, Mo., with quote from Gerry Galloway
• Midwest floods expose outdated levee systems
• Boston's NPR Radio Station did a bit of a different story on levees (Real media player needed)
• CNN Story Residual Risk-Insurance not required, FEMA told flooded town
• The wave of the future-Developers and homeowners need to plan for more extreme floods
• Burst Levees Force a Town to Consider Its Future
• Soaked in '93, town now high, dry
• Call for Change Ignored, Levees Remain Patchy
• Tempting Fate - Fifteen years after the Great Flood of 1993, floodplain development is booming

Informational Links

• NOAA Hydrologic Prediction Service

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