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- Hey, I'm out here this
morning on the levee 611-614,

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on the left bank of the Missouri River.

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This is where the Platte
River and Missouri River

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come together, the
confluence of the Platte

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and the Missouri River.

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It's one of the major
breaches that we experienced

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back in the March flood.

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In fact, this breach is
over a thousand feet wide,

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two breaches totalling a thousand feet.

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We've been actively working this site now

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for several months.

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It's finally closed.

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The re-routed levee
around the breach point

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is up to full height.

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The plate cap is on.

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We're just now in the process
of putting the topsoil

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on the levee in order to
start growing the grass

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and finish it up.

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So the scour hole that developed
here was over 60 feet deep,

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the size of four football fields.

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That required us to build a
new levee around that hole,

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which is just now complete,
providing protection now

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on the Iowa side in the
611-614 levee district.

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