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Diversion Tube Installed in Attempt to Halt Flooding in Boise, Idaho

2017-05-06 29 Dailymotion

<br /> <p>Drone footage captured a 600-foot flood diversion tube</a> installed and action in the Eagle and Garden City neighborhoods of Boise, Idaho, to keep water from the Boise River from flooding homes.</p><p>The tube was made by AIRE Industrial Spill Containment</a> and was installed by the Ada County’s Engineering Division and Boise River Flood Control District 10.</p><br /><p>The Army Corps of Engineers previously built a 4,000-foot temporary levee near Eagle Island to contain the Boise River, which had risen above the flood level of 6,500 cubic-feet-per-second and is currently around 8,500-to-9,000 in Ada County</a>.<br><br />. Credit: SkySnap LLC via Storyful</p><br />

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