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 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers slowly released water from a bloated reservoir into a river that winds toward Des Moines and a vulnerable levee protecting a downtown neighborhood Thursday.Tom Heinold, an Army Corps flood risk management coordinator, said the engineers began lowering panels from an inflatable dam one by one to avoid producing a  roaring current  in the Des Moines River as water tips over the spillway at Saylo stanley cups uk rville Lake, 11 miles north of the city. We put it  a panel  down and then let the lake l stanley cups evel rise a little bit, then put it down a little bit more and let the lake level rise again,  Heinold said.He said it would take about 15 hours to lower all five panels in the dam.The re stanley cup lease is a critical test of a levee that failed in 1993 and 2008, flooding the working-class neighborhood of Birdland. Some residents evacuated their homes in the days preceding Thursday s controlled release, although officials did not issue an evacuation order.        City officials were monitoring the river and levees, and the river was expected to stay within the levee system when it crests Thursday evening at 27.4 feet, more than 4 feet about flood stage, according to the Army Corps of Engineer  river gauge website. We ll be spending a great deal of time watching specific areas at Birdland,  said Bill Stowe, director of Des Moines Public Works.  We ll be walking the entire area. Birdland residents have expressed annoyance that the construction of a new levee, which has been in dis Stnc The Odd Truth, July 19,  2004
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