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Reuters(Reuters) - The government plans to blow up a third section of a Mississippi River levee on Wednesday night to allow flood water back into the river, as river levels upstream continue to drop.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers blew up a two-mile section of the Birds Point levee Monday night, flooding about 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland, to ease flooding in towns in Illinois and Kentucky. A second, smaller section was detonated Tuesday afternoon to allow water back into the river.
Corps spokesman Jim Pogue said the Corps is waiting for additional explosive materials to reach the site of the third area. The earliest the site could be breached is 8 or 9 p.m. Wednesday night. No further breaches of the Birds Point type are planned, he said.
"The flood fight will not stop here, the entire system is experiencing flooding and we will continue our fight downstream," said Major Gen. Michael J. Walsh, president of the Mississippi River Commission, in a statement.
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