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After the Flood of 1927, what did the Army Corp

of Engineers do to fix the problems with the
current levee-only policy?

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Answer:

On the Mississippi River itself, the Corps replaced "levees only" with the Jadwin plan, which added dams on tributary rivers and bypass channels and other measures that have largely protected the Lower Mississippi Valley since 1927, including during extreme events such as in 2011.

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