ADVISORY/Midwest Floods Continue.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 23, 2001 TOPIC: Mississippi River flooding continues today in Iowa and southern Illinois with crests of more than 24-feet expected Tuesday in the Quad Cities. Water along some parts of the river has reached levels at or above the peaks from the great flood of 1993, according to experts cited in a story by the Chicago Tribune. That year, the river topped 23-feet, the story said. While most of the flooding has been caused by snow melt and winter rains, thunderstorms in the area recently have been adding to water woes, the story said. Experts in the story predict that cleanup costs will reach hundreds of millions of dollars in the devastated flood plain. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Prof. Nicholas Pinter is a geologist at Southern Illinois University Southern Illinois University, main campus at Carbondale; state supported; coeducational; est. 1869, opened 1874 as a normal school, renamed 1947. It has a center for archaeological investigation and a fisheries research laboratory. There is also a campus at Edwardsville. who specializes in geological and natural hazards, especially earthquakes, flooding, and landsliding. Recent work has focused on the Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. , analyzing long-term shifts in the discharge-stage relationship caused by engineering structures and incorporating these shifts into calculations of flood recurrence recurrence /re·cur·rence/ (-ker´ens) the return of symptoms after a remission.recur´rent re·cur·rence n. 1. and probabilities. This flooding work has won Prof. Pinter a 1999 Charles A. Lindbergh Foundation award. 618/453-7375 Mr. Ron Reese is president of REE-Construction/Damage and past president of Water Loss Institute, the association of specialists in cleaning & restoration. Mr. Reese has been a restoration contractor for 17+ years. He has hands-on expertise in emergency damage mitigation MITIGATION. To make less rigorous or penal. 2. Crimes are frequently committed under circumstances which are not justifiable nor excusable, yet they show that the offender has been greatly tempted; as, for example, when a starving man steals bread to satisfy , structural drying and reconstruction, contents restoration. In addition, he is knowledgeable about industry issues including trends, education, ethics ethics, in philosophy, the study and evaluation of human conduct in the light of moral principles. Moral principles may be viewed either as the standard of conduct that individuals have constructed for themselves or as the body of obligations and duties that a , insurance, practices and standards. 208/788-2220 reecon@the-restorers.com or PR: Jheri Fleet, President, Fleet Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most 303/320-4540 jheri@oneimage.com Mr. Ken Baechel is President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Community Alert Network in Albany, NY. He has 20 years experience providing emergency notification to more than 650 communities and corporations in 39 States and 3 Canadian Provinces Noun 1. Canadian province - Canada is divided into 12 provinces for administrative purposes province, state - the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south" . His company had more than 900 activations last year for missing children, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, chemical spills chemical spill Public health An inadvertent release of a liquid chemical regarded as hazardous to human health which in a workplace is identified with hazardous materials labels. See Material Safety Data Sheets. and school emergencies. 518/862-0987 Ken.Baechel@CAN-INtl.com ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource, a collaboration of Business Wire and The Round Table Group, provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/expertsource. Business Wire's Media Resource Center provides working journalists many free media services. Please visit the BW Media Resource Center at (www.businesswire.com/media) for more information. |
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