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The March-April 1969 snowmelt floods in the Red River of the North, Upper Mississippi, and Missouri Basins
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1971
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Series: NOAA technical report NWS ; 13
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Description:The 1969 snowmelt floods in the Red River of the North, Upper Mississippi, and Missouri Basins rank among the most severe in this region in terms of crest stages reached and damages sustained. Record flooding occurred at many places in the Red River of the North Basin and on tributaries of the Missouri River in the Dakotas and Iowa. Record or near-record flooding also occurred along tributaries of the Upper Mississippi River in Minnesota and Iowa and along the main stream from the headwaters down to Davenport, Iowa. Nine deaths were reported, and total damage was estimated at $151 million. Accurate and timely flood forecasts and Operation Foresight, the federally sponsored cooperative effort to reduce or alleviate flood damage, kept the death toll low, and prevented at least $100 million in additional damage. Existing flood-control projects prevented damage amounting to another $97 million.
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