POTTAWATTAMIE COUNTY, Iowa - A third breach on a levee in Pottawattamie County is keeping Iowa Department of Transportation busy monitoring I-29.
Engineer Austin Yates tells Omaha's WOWT 6 News, "Yesterday one of our maintenance crew pounded a survey stake in, marked off at two-inch increments from zero all the way up to 30 inches. That's what we're using as our gauge as the water's coming in. Earlier this morning (Thursday) it was coming in about an inch and an hour and now it's a bit faster than that." That stick is along I-29 north of the Honey Creek exit.
Yates says the breaches are speeding up the flooding approach to I-29 and I-680.
Once the water reaches the top of that stick, crews will get ready to close those roadways.
Photo courtesy of WOWT 6 News, Omaha.