Top Ft. Calhoun nuke plant official: To get to a disaster level floodwater would have to rise 3.5 feet above current levels — No one has a model of what river is going to do, says NWS hydrologist

Published: June 18th, 2011 at 12:43 pm ET
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OPPD Says Fort Calhoun Station Rumors Untrue, WOWT, June 17, 2011:

There has been a lot of rumors recently concerning flooding. OPPD, which operates the Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Station just north of Omaha, addressed some of those rumors saying they are not factual. [...]

[Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant's chief nuclear officer, Dave Bannister] said for the plant to get to a disaster level, floodwater would have to rise three and a half feet above where it stands now. [...]

Floodwaters might hit KC by midweek, Kansas City Star, June 17, 2011:

The endless complexities have made prediction a tough task, said
Ross Wolford, a hydrologist working long days for the National Weather
Service in order to try to predict the river’s flow.

“We don’t
have, nor does the Corps or anyone else have, a hydraulic model of what
the [Missouri] river’s going to do,” Wolford said. “There’s a lot of art
in the way we estimate.”

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