the breach will flood 130,000 acres and affect 90 homes and 200 people..
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full article.CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. A federal judge on Friday gave the Army Corps of Engineers the go-ahead to break a Mississippi River levee and flood Missouri farmland if the agency deems it necessary to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town upstream.
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