Melvern Reservoir Ant Hill Metaphor Describes Dam Project
The Melvern Reservoir project, a $25.8 million Army Corps of Engineers flood control scheme, will create a 120 foot high dam four miles west of Melvern and flood about 7,000 acres in Osage County. Construction by Cook Construction Co. began last month with spring activity expected across the site.
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Kansas
Melvern
Marais Des Cygnes
Lake Pomona
Cook Construction Co
Jackson, Miss
End of an era as Melvern dam project begins flooding farm land
A farmer speaks of loss as land upstream from Melvern dam will become the lake. He recalls his palm prints in the soil and notes the quiet future under water with sediment filling fields and few sounds beyond distant water and rustling fences.
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Melvern Dam
Melvern Project Funds Requested for 112 Million Budget
Kansas asked the Budget Bureau to include 112 million in next year’s federal budget for water projects. Read across the Osage Basin to the Kansas River Basin, listed are Osage: Melvern Reservoir eight million, Osawatomie protection one million, Fort Scott reservoir one point five million, Stockton reservoir seventeen million, Kaysinger Bluff reservoir fifty million. Also local protections and reservoirs in Hays Topeka Perry Clinton Lawrence Kansas City Kan and Atchison with sums ranging from five hundred thousand to three million.
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Ston. Sr
Kansas
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Congress
Osage Basin
Melvern
Osawatomie
Fort Scott
Stockton
Kaysinger Bluff
Kansas River Basin
Hays
Grove
Topeka
Perry
Clinton
Lawrence
Kansas City
Kan
Atchison
Rainmaking in Los Angeles region eyed for next year
Officials report rainfall in Raine County and target basins rose by about 20 percent over the past year due to cloud seeding efforts. The success prompts officials to plan another trial in the coming 12 months.
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