Mississippi River Flooding 2011: Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway

This USGS aerial photo mosaic shows a series of levee breaks on the Missouri River during the 1993 flood, which were caused by overtopping. USGS scientists will use measurements from the intentionally breached levee at Birds Point in 2011 to compare with the 1993 levee breach measurements to understand the impacts on downstream lands under various levee-breach scenarios.