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Flood Alters Wabash River

By AP

Mount Vernon, IN – The force of June's record flooding on the Wabash River created a new island that's left about a dozen farmers cut off from some of their cropland.
Posey County's Emergency Management Agency Director Larry Robb says the change in the river's course carved a channel that created an island that's at least 2,000 acres in size.
Robb estimates that the river has shortened its course by at least six miles because the channel created a bypass around miles of the river's meandering course.
Congressman Brad Ellsworth toured the area Saturday with the farmers in far southwestern Indiana who are now cut off from some of their cropland. He says it's a devastating situation for those farmers, who were already reeling from flood damage to their crops.
Ellsworth promised to make those funds available to the farmers in a ``timely and efficient'' manner.

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