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Taming the Mississippi River
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Taming the Mississippi River

Engineers use levees, floodways, dams, and much more to control the ever restless Mississippi.

Published Mar 18, 2015

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Low Water on the Mississippi Causes Barge Backup
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Low Water on the Mississippi Causes Barge Backup

The drought of 2012 reduced traffic to one towboat at a time; groundings closed parts of the river for hours to days.

Published Aug 23, 2012

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Mississippi Meanders
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Mississippi Meanders

Published Aug 31, 2006

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Winter Flooding on the Mississippi
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Winter Flooding on the Mississippi

Persistent rains and saturated soils across the watershed swelled the river to its banks and occasionally onto floodplains.

Published Feb 4, 2020

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Mississippi River Well Below Normal
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Mississippi River Well Below Normal

Coming off of the extreme floods of 2011, the river was approaching historic lows in the summer of 2012 near Memphis and along much of its lower reaches.

Published Aug 21, 2012

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Meandering Mississippi River
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Meandering Mississippi River

The wandering river is a boon to farming, but it has no interest in state borders.

Published Jul 19, 2020

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Flooding in Memphis
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Flooding in Memphis

Acquired May 10, 2011, and April 21, 2010, these natural-color images show flooded and normal conditions along the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee.

Published May 11, 2011

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Mississippi River Delta
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Mississippi River Delta

Time, weather, and human intervention have all shaped the Mississippi Delta in Louisiana, a giant bird’s foot shape protruding into the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi River deposits sediment into the ocean, and over 25 years, NASA Landsat satellites observed changes in the delta’s shape.

Published Oct 7, 2007

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Burlington, Iowa, and the Mississippi Floodplain
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Burlington, Iowa, and the Mississippi Floodplain

The city has a commanding view of the fertile and well-vegetated river basin and plain.

Published May 15, 2017

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Morganza Floodway, 1973
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Morganza Floodway, 1973

Observations by Landsat 1 from 1973 show the Morganza Floodway after its first and only opening in 57 years.

Published May 14, 2011

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Winter Flooding in Mississippi and Louisiana
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Winter Flooding in Mississippi and Louisiana

Persistent heavy rains in the first two months of 2020 have swelled rivers from Missouri to the Gulf of Mexico.

Published Feb 29, 2020

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Lingering Floodwaters near Vicksburg, Mississippi
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Lingering Floodwaters near Vicksburg, Mississippi

These false-color images compare conditions along the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers around Vicksburg in June 2011, during heavy flooding, and three years earlier.

Published Jun 14, 2011

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Connecticut River Oxbow
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Connecticut River Oxbow

Floods and new infrastructure have long since separated the distinctive bend in the river that was portrayed by landscape painter Thomas Cole in 1836.

Published Oct 15, 2017

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Platte River, Nebraska
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Platte River, Nebraska

Published Dec 30, 2003

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A Satellite View of River Width
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A Satellite View of River Width

As they prepare for a satellite that will measure the height and areal extent of rivers in unprecedented detail, hydrologists have released a better map of North American river widths.

Published Jul 9, 2015

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Mackenzie Meets Beaufort
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Mackenzie Meets Beaufort

Canada’s largest and longest river delivers vast amounts of fresh water and sediment to the sea.

Published Aug 6, 2017

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Arkansas River Meanders
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Arkansas River Meanders

Near the city of Little Rock, the river has meandered for decades, leaving its marks across the landscape.

Published Apr 21, 2014

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Flooding on the White River
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Flooding on the White River

Meandering across a wide, relatively flat plain, the White River of Arkansas is no stranger to flooding. With regularity, spring rains push the river over its banks, inundating the flood-adapted forest that surrounds it. The river reached its fifth highest crest of 33.78 feet on April 19, 2008.

Published Apr 26, 2008

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