Des Moines Register: Ottumwa residents chafe as flood persists for 3 months
Ottumnwa residents chafe as flood persists for 3 months
By Perry Beeman
Des Moines Register
Ottumwa, Ia. — Martha Dietz and many of her neighbors blame the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for allowing the Des Moines River to virtually cut off the only access they had to their Wapello County homes since early June.
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