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Historic Flood Forecast For Arkansas - Engineers Scramble

March 24, 2008

High water pouring down the White River could cause historic flooding in cities along its path in eastern Arkansas, forecasters warned Sunday.

The river, one of many out of its banks across wide areas of the Midwest, could top levels recorded in a devastating flood 25 years ago, National Weather Service meteorologist John Robinson warned.

“There will be water going into areas where people have not seen it before, and may not be expecting to see high water,” Robinson wrote in an e-mail to reporters Sunday.

A tributary of the White River, the Black River, ruptured a levee in two places Saturday near Pocahontas, said Renee Preslar, a spokeswoman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management. That stream has been bloated by water pouring downstream from hard-hit southeastern Missouri.

Preslar said the levee breaks allowed flooding in outlying areas but she did not have details on what might have been damaged.

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