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Ill. levee breaches force small town's evacuation

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169 Reads | | Post a commentPublished June 18, 2008 - 10:19 AM

Evanston, Chicago, Ill. —

GULFPORT, Ill. - Floodwaters breached two levees in western Illinois on Wednesday and threatened more Mississippi River towns in Missouri after inundating much of Iowa for the past week.

The breaches 45 miles south of Gulfport flooded farmland near the hamlet of Meyer and south of there in the Indian Graves levee district, Adams County Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Julie Shepard said.

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