"Explosives blew apart a levee in Pottawattamie County, Iowa July 1, Friday morning. According to a news release, a group of private citizens representing the Vanman #30 levee intentionally breached a half-mile stretch of levee from river mile marker 637 to 637.5 around 10 a.m....so that floodwater on the farm ground could go back to the [Missouri] river."
"These levees are saturated. We have the most water on them for the longest period of time we've ever had. This levee gets blown and we saw a several inch rise in the river shortly thereafter, so even a three or four inch pulse coming down the river when we're looking at every half inch as being significant is a fairly big event." http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/124871614.html Arnie Gundersen on CNN: "Sandbags and nuclear power shouldn't be put in the same sentence." He's concerned about the emergency service pumps at Fort Calhoun taking on more water but since the Cooper plant is still operating, it would take longer to cool in an emergency and should shut down to get ahead of the problem. http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/gundersen-june-29-2011-video
