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IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 COMPARATIVE DATA FOR THE STATE— APRIL. 



T. indicates an amount too small to measure, or less than .005 inch rainfall 

 and less than .05 inch snowfall. 



Rivers — The interior rivers did not reacli flood stage, except the Des 

 Moines from Ottumwa to the Mississippi. Very little damage resulted. 

 The Missouri was high for the season during much of the month but the 

 flood stage was not reached except for a very brief period on the 5th and 

 6th from Omaha southward. On the Mississippi one of the worst floods 

 of i^ecord occurred. The following are the flood stages at stations on the 

 Mississippi River and the stage reached during the April flood: Lansing 

 flood stage 18.0 feet, highest stage reached 17.2 feet; Dubuque, flood stage 

 18.0 feet, highest stage reached 21.0 feet; Clinton, flood stage 16.0 feet, 

 highest stage reached 19.0 feet; Le Claire, flood stage 10.0 feet, highest 

 stage reached 13.4 feet; Davenport, flood stage 15.0 feet, highest stage 

 reached 17.1 feet; Muscatine, flood stage 16.0 feet, highest stage reached 

 17.7 feet; Keokuk, flood stage 14.0 feet, highest stage reached 16.8 feet. 

 The damage was reduced to a minimum by timely warnings. At Keokuk 

 the damage was negligible, being principally inconvenience to railroads. 

 A broken levee that protected Muscatine Island caused the inundation of 

 about 23,000 acres of truck land. A complete report of the flood at Du- 

 buque, where it was especially severe, is published below. 



