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Big Sioux

(so͞o), river, 420 mi (676 km) long, rising in NE S.Dak. and flowing S into the Missouri River. It passes through an agricultural region that produces corn, oats, hogs, and beef cattle. The river's meandering course drops 20 ft (6 m) and services a hydroelectric station there. The Big Sioux forms part of the border between Iowa and South Dakota.
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This time, the Big Sioux should begin receding Saturday and stop flooding even nearby agricultural land by Monday morning.
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A series of levees constructed on either side of the Big Sioux River as it wanders through Sioux Falls protects the city from flooding.
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The study corridors are: Upper Iowa River in Howard and Winneshiek counties; Maquoketa River in Delaware County; Cedar River in Bremer and Black Hawk counties, Black Hawk Creek in Grundy and Black Hawk counties; Iowa River in Johnson and Louisa counties; Lake Odessa in Louisa County; Lower Des Moines River in Wapello, Davis, and Van Buren counties; South Skunk River in Story County; West Nishnabotna River in Pottawattamie and Mills counties; West Fork Des Moines River in Emmet and Palo Alto counties; Little Sioux River in Dickinson, Clay, Buena Vista, O Brien, Cherokee, Ida, and Woodbury counties; and Big Sioux River in Lyon, Sioux, and Plymouth counties.
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The Skunky at the time was (and so remains) a creek off the modestly larger Big Sioux River, which empties 70 miles distant into the middle Missouri River at Sioux City.
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Justification: These properties are identified as land side storm water detention as part of the Big Sioux Levee Protection Plan and Operations manual.
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Normal operation of these sites in a high water event on the Big Sioux would be less than a week.
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Xcel Energy today held a groundbreaking ceremony to commemorate the construction of a new electrical power substation on the site of the former stockyards near the Falls of the Big Sioux River in downtown Sioux Falls, SD.
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