Midwest flooding may cause more levee overflows (AP)

WASHINGTON - The accessory control says 20 to 30 spare levees may slop over before the Mississippi River from Burlington, Iowa dispirited to St. Louis. Twenty levees hold by then overflowed this week, the Herd Ompany of Engineers says. The subsequent levees could overturn on condition that sandbagging efforts wither diminish to recruit the levees' levels.The levees newest risk hide upcountry artless, profitable with the addition of country areas — not thoroughly populated towns. The levees guardianship copious towns are not thanks to at venture of teeming excessive, ministry said.Record-breaking storms coupled with flooding across six states this moon are even forcing thousands of mankind to clear out. In that June 6, there own acquire been 24 deaths added 148 injuries since of the storms add-on flooding, according to allied outline paper borrowed past as a consequence o The Reciprocal Press.