Army Corps of Engineers Intentional Flood of America's Heartland

Now the flooding is beginning to make sense because the levee's were never meant to withstand a flood plus have the Army Corps of Engineers intentionally releasing water in the spring.  Why would they release water in the spring when rainfall is at its highest?  This says it all:

'Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had the Corps been true to its original mission of flood control, the dams would not have been full in preparation for a spring pulse,' writes Herring. 'The dams could further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need to inundate a sizable chunk of nine states.' 

So once again we have the environmentalist who run the EPA right smack in the center of the flooding due to their putting protection of some species over people.  They are group that is out of control and the Obama Administration takes their side for every last creature they find that they want to protect at the expense of humans and their property.  It doesn't mean one thing to them that large areas have been flooded because of the bonehead move of the Corps of Engineers who listened to these environmentalist.

Where is the media on this issue of why the flooding was so bad this year along the Missouri River?  No wonder the dam system in the Dayton, Ohio, area has been kept under local control and not turned over to the Army Corps of Engineers. 

The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland 

Posted by timothy on Sunday June 26, @08:24AM
from the best-laid-dams dept. 

Hugh Pickens writes

"Joe Herring writes that sixty years ago, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began the process of taming the Missouri by constructing massive dams at the top to moderate flow to the smaller dams below, generating electricity while providing desperately needed control of the river's devastating floods, but after about thirty years of operation, as the environmentalist movement gained strength throughout the seventies and eighties, the Corps received a great deal of pressure to include specific environmental concerns into their Master Water Control Manual, the 'bible' for the operation of the dam system, as preservation of habitat for at-risk bird and fish populations soon became a hot issue among the burgeoning environmental lobby. 

The Corps began to utilize the dam system to mimic the previous flow cycles of the original river, holding back large amounts of water upstream during the winter and early spring in order to release them rapidly as a spring pulse. 'Whether warned or not, the fact remains that had the Corps been true to its original mission of flood control, the dams would not have been full in preparation for a spring pulse,' writes Herring. 'The dams could further have easily handled the additional runoff without the need to inundate a sizable chunk of nine states.' The horrifying consequence is water rushing from the dams on the Missouri twice as fast as the highest previous releases on record while the levees that protect the cities and towns downstream were constructed to handle the flow rates promised at the time of the dam's construction."

Source:  Slashdot.org