‘Big ol’ hole’ left in rich farmland after spring flood

Published 12:11 am Sunday, August 28, 2011

By Staff Reports

Wayne Richards, a DIMCO employee, walks near the bottom of a 990-foot-wide hole left by surging Mississippi River water when a levee broke during the spring.

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