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A Thursday night levee break has redoubled flood-fighting efforts in northwest Missouri.

It also has bought communities downstream a short reprieve.

Missouri River levels — already setting records on their way to what could be a historic flood this summer — dropped Friday near Kansas City after a levee failed near Watson in Atchison County, Mo., forcing evacuations west of Interstate 29 and threatening a water-treatment plant near Rock Port.

“Looks like it’s pretty sure it’s going to be in danger,” Mark Manchester, deputy emergency management director for Atchison County, said of the plant.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/06/24/2973736/levee-break-upstream-delays-flooding.html#ixzz1QJBmosK2