Meramec River

The Meramec River is the same river that flooded a couple of hundred Missouri homes and neighboring towns and caused 1,000 people to flee to shelters.

CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008 2008

The town of Valley Park, Missouri, has been spared from flooding among the Meramec River by a new $50 million levee.

CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008 2008

Now, the encouraging news is that the Meramec River has crested.

CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2008 2008

The Meramec River is filling the streets and engulfing homes.

CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2008 2008

One of many Midwestern towns flooded by the swollen Meramec River.

CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2008 2008

It's definitely going to take place, especially in spots along the Meramec River in Eureka, where we do expect the river to crest on say right around Saturday afternoon into Sunday, up to 43 feet.

CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2008 2008

The town of Valley Park is right on the edge of the bloated Meramec River.

CNN Transcript Mar 23, 2008 2008

And now let's go to this some aerials from Fete (ph), Missouri along the Meramec River.

CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2008 2008

Half a mile east of it, in a bluff on the opposite side of the Meramec River, is a cave with an entrance 25 feet wide and about the same in height; the roof forming a fairly symmetrical Gothic arch.

Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894

The two caverns thus variously designated are on the Meramec River, 14 miles north of Salem.

Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894