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June 18th, 2008
Posted: 10:11 AM ET
(CNN) — Water spilled over a levee on the Mississippi River on Wednesday, pouring into west-central Illinois, the Army Corps of Engineers for the Mississippi Valley said. The Corps of Engineers said that the levee had been overtopped, but local officials had a different account, reporting that the levee — near Meyer, Illinois — breached in two places, pouring water into Hancock and Adams counties. “It’s kind of a sad day,” said Sheriff John Jefferson of Hancock County. “People put in a lot of manpower (to build up the levees) and all was lost.” The floodwater will cover thousands of acres of farm land from Warsaw to Quincy — about a 25-mile stretch of the river. All residents in the area had been evacuated, Jefferson said. |
 
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