Chasing the Flood

Flood Page 1:
MANAGING THE MISSISSIPPI focuses on changes made to the Mississippi to manage the river for commerce and flood control.

Flood Page 2:
DOCUMENTING THE 1997 FLOODS
provides examples of student Chasing the Flood projects.

Flood Page 3:
LIVING WITH FLOODS: TWO SOLUTIONS
looks at different ways that two Mississippi river towns cope with flooding.

Flood Page 4:
WHAT WE PUT IN THE RIVER'S WAY
Looks at how human impacts have made flood problems worse.

The following links lead to a series of maps that show locations in the Mississippi River system that are at or above flood stage. 
Flood Sites 3/14
Flood Sites 3/24

These links leads to tables of precipitation data collected by ROL schools studying the relationship of precipitation to river levels.
Data for March, 1998
Data for April, 1998