Crews Start Floodwall At St. Paul Airport
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- Crews are starting to build a floodwall at St. Paul Downtown Airport.
Airport officials are expecting spring flooding of the Mississippi River at St. Paul.
In a news release Monday, Metropolitan Airports Commission Executive Director Jeff Hamiel said before they developed the floodwall in 2009, flooding sometimes could cause thousands of dollars in damage and close the airport for weeks at a time.
He says it's designed to protect the airport against a hundred-year flood.
The wall will remain in place until the flooding danger has passed.
This is the fourth time the floodwall has been built there. It was erected once in 2009 and twice in 2010.
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