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Part of the crew of over 100 Thomas Jefferson high school students who Wednesday responded to the call of the city for volunteer help to aid in filling bags and building up the west-end Missouri river levee. A like number from Abraham Lincoln high school were at work Thursday. "They are all doing a fine job," City Engineer Jack Boyne said. "Because of their help," said Sewer Supt. Clyde McLaughlin, "we were able to complete the dike to the 25-foot level between the waterworks and the high point near the I.C. bridge." The boys are wearing caps made from sacks.
Several hours after the rising of flood water of the Missouri rolled over a county road at the Narrows, north of the city limits, scores of acres between the highway and the Illinois Central railroad (right center) were inundated. The flood water forced William Tyson to move all of his livestock into the city. This break was also sending water into Big Lake Thursday, and threatens the entire area north of the the city.
Completely sand-bagged against the threat of Missouri river flood water is the Council Bluffs waterworks pumping station, located just a few feet away from the stream. Pumping equipment inside the station is located in deep concrete pits, well below floor level, and would be put out of service should water reach inside the plant. Supt. Franklin Jensen said pumps will be available to protect the plant against any seepage through the barricade.
A shift in the Missouri and, voilà, Carter Lake
The 118-acre Carter Lake provides fishing and recreational opportunities--and a scenic backdrop--for Carter Lake and area residents. Paved walkways and wooden bridges facilitate pedestrian traffic around the lake which was formed as an ox-bow of the Missouri River when the river's channel shifted back in 1888. The shift left a 1,236-acre chunk of Iowa on the Nebraska side of the river, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided remained in Iowa's possession. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]
A shift in the Missouri and, voilá, Carter Lake
What is now a large pile of dirt on the outskirts of Carter Lake is the first phase of a major commercial development. In September, Edward Owen, chairman of the board of Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. in Carter Lake, announced construction plans fora $1.5 million two-story office building on the outskirts of the city. The building, which will house headquarters of Owen Industries, Inc., is the first phase of development Owen has planned for 68 acres in the area. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]
At right is the architects', How/Nelson Associates of Omaha, drawing of the planned brick, steel, and glass building. [headquarters of Owen Industries] Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled fro early October. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]
A proposal before the Metropolitan Planning Agency would add $75,000 in improvements to the Carter Lake water system to service Owen Parkway West, a business office complex in the southern part of the city. The improvements would also open the area to further development. Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki. [This cropped version of photo is the one used in the Nonpareil; image prior to cropping is: Carter_Lake_Iowa_2_26_1987_004 .jpg ]
Carter Lake sign, with Neighborhood Watch sign below it
The old army game had already started at the Armory Saturday morning as three men from the Fairfield detachment, Jack Zierlien, John Hay, and Frank R. Danielson, settle down in a corner to guard some of the medical division's equipment.
Unloading of the three state liquor trucks was proceeding at a brisk pace with four company K Red Oak men, upper row, Pvt. D.C. Johnson and Pvt. Dean Dutton, and Pvt. Dana Fuller, and Pvt. Victor Peterson, bottom, helping with the blankets.
This section of East Omaha, just east of the Pottawattamie county line, looked like a scene from Venice as the Nonpareil's aerial photographer swept over it Saturday afternoon.
Flood waters rolling in from the muddy Missouri had completely isolated this farm from the surrounding countryside when this air view was taken. Two horses left on the farm can be seen in the upper right-hand corner, belly deep in the flood.
Council Bluffs Wins First Battle Against Surging Missouri River Flood
As the crest passed the Dodge Riverside pumping station here early Tuesday and hundreds of workers who had toiled around the clock went home for rest, two lone patrolmen of the Iowa State Guard are shown as they meet at the junction of their patrol atop the levee. The photo was taken at 7 a.m. Tuesday, after the river had dropped 0.07 of an inch from the crest of 22.45 at 2 a.m.
Herman Olsen, who lives at 36 Pickard Lane, Lake Manawa, rows his boat right up the street, almost to his front door. The flood waters covered a vast area of land surrounding Lake Manawa, but did not reach into the center of the village.
Normally this is the road that motorists use to travel around the southeast tip of Lake Manawa. Monday afternoon flood waters had covered the road to a depth of about 18 inches, poured over the floors of half a dozen cottages located at the end of Pickard Lane, and in an area southeast of the junction of Pickard Lane and the highway.
Flood waters from the Missouri, sweeping into Lake Manawa from the south and southeast, completely surrounded the Council Bluffs Country Club late Monday, and water flowed up a swale to within a couple blocks of the road south of the Manawa school.
Members of the Fish and Game club, long-time workers for the conservation of the lake and its resources, saw this view of their club house from the Country club golf course late Monday afternoon.
Atop the sand-bagged, dirt bulwarked levee, which held the crest of the Missouri river flood waters away from Council Bluffs are, left to right, Mayor S.W. McCall, Lt. Gen. M.A. Tinley, commander of the Iowa state guard; Gov. B.B. Hickenlooper of Des Moines and City Solicitor Proctor R. Perkins. Six hours after the picture was taken, when the governor viewed the flood area Monday, water had reached over the top rail on the fence, right, in front of the water works pumping station.
Mrs. Marie Olson, and Mrs. Fae Burkhalter, of the Ottumwa mobile Red Cross canteen, were toasted in coffee Tuesday afternoon by Sgt. J.A. Bramen, and Corp. William Lemfor, of Atlantic, in appreciation of the Red Cross' work in feeding the many hungry workers at the pump station.