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Flood ruins Valmeyer symbolizes 1993 disaster transition
The Columbia Levee breach near Valmeyer, Illinois, sent the Mississippi flood ripping through homes and spurring relocation to a new bluff. Five years on, survivors like Dorothy Schreder navigate a rebuilt town, mortgages, and longing for the old landscape as a costly $45 million venture reshapes the community.
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Valmeyer, Ill
Mississippi River
Columbia
Virgil Gummersheimer
Valmeyer
Russell E. Weston Jr
U.S. Capitol
Missouri
Pattonsburg
Rhineland
Walmeyer
St. Louis
Walmeyer Hill
Betty Knobloch
Mississippi
Dorothy Schreder
Ill
Schreder
Dennis Knobloch
Charlotte Gartzke
Ken Lederman
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