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April 27, 2011
Farmland south of Poplar Bluff is inundated with floodwaters from the Black River after a levee just south of the city failed Tuesday.
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Leaky Missouri levee highlights national problem
Floodwaters leaking past an old earthen levee in this river town highlight a larger problem threatening much of rural America: Scores of flood walls built decades ago by farmers are increasingly susceptible to failure.
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