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	Valmeyer, Illinois - Operation Fresh Start
		Valmeyer, Illinois, was once a community of about 900 on the banks of the Mississippi River, 25 miles south of St. Louis.
		Valmeyer would be rebuilt on a 500-acre parcel on a nearby bluff overlooking the river.
		Valmeyer was the first community to benefit from the assistance of the Working Group on Sustainable Redevelopment.
	freshstart.ncat.org /case/valmeyer.htm (815 words)

	Smart Communities Network: Disaster Planning Success Stories
		Valmeyer, Illinois, was once a community of about 900 on the banks of the Mississippi River, 25 miles south of St. Louis.
		Valmeyer would be rebuilt on a 500-acre parcel on a nearby bluff overlooking the river.
		Valmeyer was the first community to benefit from the assistance of the Working Group on Sustainable Redevelopment.
	www.smartcommunities.ncat.org /success/valmeyer.shtml (801 words)

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	HIGH SCHOOL Handbook
		Valmeyer Community Unit School District #3 provides vocational and educational opportunities for all students who are residents of District #3 without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, handicap, or national origin.
		In order to represent Valmeyer High School in any interscholastic competition, a student athlete must meet all eligibility requirements of the IHSA as well as those of Valmeyer High School.
		Illinois State Code prohibits the use of electronic signaling devices (beepers/pagers), and cellular phones.
	www.valmeyerk12.org /news/hshandbk.htm (9098 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois (IL) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
		As of 2005, Valmeyer's population is 720 people.
		Compared to the rest of the country, Valmeyer's cost of living is 3.00 % lower than the U.S. average.
		The unemployment rate in Valmeyer is 4.60 percent (U.S. avg.
	www.bestplaces.net /city/profile.aspx?city=Valmeyer_IL (103 words)

	Rivers of Life: Chasing the Flood - Living with Floods
		Laurie, Valmeyer's City Clerk, recalls that in the dark of night--as a wall of water approached Valmeyer's houses, school, shops, and fire station--"the only sound was the corn stalks being broken off by the wave of water."
		The destruction was so complete that the residents of Valmeyer took the unusual step of moving the town out of the river's way.
		Valmeyer's fire station was one of many buildings underwater in the Great Flood of 1993.
	cgee.hamline.edu /rivers/Inquiry/CF/Cf_4.htm (477 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Valmeyer is fast approaching its pre-flood population of 900 inhabitants.
		Valmeyer's history largely is based on periodic flooding and efforts to control the river.
		Valmeyer's story has been well-documented in both the national and international media, most notably on public television's Nova program and as a front-page article in the New York Times in 1996.
	www.conradol.com /valmeyer.html (347 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois - American Profile (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In September 1993, a month after the flood, residents voted to rebuild Valmeyer at a new location on a 280-acre corn field 1.5 miles away from, and 400 feet higher than, the original town.
		FEMA was among three federal relief agencies that worked with the Illinois Department of Commerce and Community Affairs to provide 90 percent of the $24 million it took to rebuild Valmeyer.
		Valmeyer isn’t exactly what it used to be, Knobloch says, and some residents still carry the emotional scars of living through a natural disaster, but a lot of people have much stronger character than they had before.
	www.americanprofile.com /article/500.html (768 words)

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	Erika Ritzel Collection of Photographs of the 1993 Flood — Morris Library
		Ritzel was an alumna of Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
		This collection consists of twenty-nine fl-and-white photographs made by Erika Ritzel of the 1993 flood in Valmeyer, Illinois (Monroe County) and a binder of eight pages of community responses about the photographs and the aftermath of the flood.
		Southern Illinois University is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, religion, national origin or sex in violation of Title VII.
	www.lib.siu.edu /Plonetest/departments/speccoll/pinv3/Ph072 (355 words)

	Valmeyer News
		By Steve Jankowski Illinois Bureau Chief - Monroe County is one of the fastest growing areas in the state of Illinois.
		The Illinois Department of Transportation announced Thursday that it is lowering the speed limit along Illinois 3 in Monroe County from 65 mph to 55 mph between Gilmore Lake Road and GG Road just south of...
		A Dupo, Illinois grandmother is dead after the minivan she was driving was struck head-on by a pick-up truck on Interstate 255 just north of Columbia, Illinois.
	www.topix.net /city/valmeyer-il (649 words)

	Monroe County, Illinois
		Monroe County, located in Greater Southwestern Illinois, has a population of approximately 25,000 people and has experienced dramatic growth in recent years.
		The county is part of the Southwestern Illinois German Heritage Area a French Heritage Corridor and is a popular day-trip destination.
		The county's principal cities, towns and villages are Waterloo (the county seat), Columbia, Valmeyer, Hecker, Fults and Maeystown.
	www.conradol.com /monroe.html (658 words)

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		The Valmeyer storage district would require a new levee in the flood plain, which would leave 10,000 acres of currently protected farmland unprotected and on the wrong side of the levee.
		But even with all the assurances that Valmeyer, Illinois is safe for now, farmers in the bottomlands are worried that the federal government might one day force their children or their grandchildren off their farms.
		So, while Valmeyer is not getting a new levee right now, the people here say they’ll keep working to stay one step ahead to make sure it never happens.
	www.greatlakesdirectory.org /mi/091806_great_lakes.htm (792 words)

	Valmeyer Junior High School Test Scores - Valmeyer, Illinois - IL
		In 2004-2005 Illinois used the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT) to test students in grades 3, 5 and 8 in reading and math and students in grades 4 and 7 in science.
		The different student groups are identified by the Illinois State Board of Education.
		If there are a small number of students in a particular group in a school, the state doesn't report data for that group.
	www.greatschools.net /modperl/achievement/il/4004 (370 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Valmeyer is a village in Monroe County, Illinois, United States.
		After the flood receded, the village relocated to higher ground about 2 miles (3 km) away.
		Valmeyer is located at 38°17′60″N, 90°18′30″W (38.299904, -90.308334)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valmeyer,_Illinois (402 words)

	Prairie du Rocher, Illinois - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is claimed to be the oldest town to continunally exist in Illinois.
		The only two older towns in Illinois - Kaskaskia and Cahokia - were each abandoned at some point during their history.
		After levees broke to the north near the towns of Columbia, Illinois and Valmeyer, Illinois, flood waters engulfed Fort de Chartres.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prairie_du_Rocher,_Illinois (794 words)

	Valmeyer, IL (Monroe County) - village travel guide - ePodunk
		Valmeyer, IL (Monroe County) - village travel guide - ePodunk
		Illinois > All counties > Monroe County > Valmeyer Village
		Valmeyer is a small community, with a population of 608, in the Little Egypt region
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/travInfo.php?locIndex=6743 (188 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois IL, village profile (Monroe County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Illinois > All counties > Monroe County > Valmeyer
		Valmeyer is a village in Monroe County, in the Saint Louis metro area.
		Median rent in Valmeyer, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $164.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=6743 (680 words)

	CNN - Weston: A man with a history of mental illness - July 26, 1998
		VALMEYER, Illinois (CNN) -- As his family grieved over his violent outburst, a picture began to emerge Sunday of Russell Weston as a man wracked by mental illness.
		His family last saw him after he left the family home in Valmeyer, Illinois.
		He had shot a dozen or more cats with a shotgun after his grandmother had asked him to do something about the cats on family property.
	www.cnn.com /US/9807/26/cap.shooting.weston/index.html (590 words)

	Gil Friend - Out Of The Mud
		For example, the town of Valmeyer, Illinois, all but wiped out by the flood, quickly decided to break ground for a new Valmeyer safely perched on a bluff 400 feet above the river.
		First, with DOE funding and the help of the American Institute of Architects, the people of Valmeyer held a series of community meetings this spring to lay the ground work for the new Valmeyer.
		Sustainable development programs may be difficult or impossible to put into place when a community is in the disarray of a flood, hurricane, fire, or earthquake.
	context.org /ICLIB/IC39/Friend.htm (715 words)

	Reason Foundation Commentary: Rebuild New Orleans Smarter, Not Harder
		In 1993, the Mississippi river overflowed the levee protecting Valmeyer, Illinois, and destroyed the town.
		Community leaders looked hard at their choices—rebuild the town as it was, or move the town to safer land.
		Valmeyer was a small town, not a big city.
	www.reason.org /commentaries/moore_20060111.shtml (467 words)

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		Looking at the distraught faces on the people that are involved there we went through the same types of things they are going through right now.
		After their town was washed away residents in Valmeyer decided to rebuild in an entirely different location less than 2 miles away on much higher ground.
		Knobloch was mayor when ground was broken on the new Valmeyer 12 years ago.
	www.ksdk.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=84229 (352 words)

	The Great Flood of '93
		In the first of a five-part series marking the ten-year anniversary of the Great Flood of '93, KWMU's Bill Raack looks at what happened, why it happened and what it was like for those who lived and worked through the disaster.
		On August 2, 1993, rising floodwaters decimated the tiny village of Valmeyer, Illinois.
		After the flood, Valmeyer residents rebuilt their entire community on a high bluff above the floodplain.
	www.kwmu.org /Programs/flood.html (458 words)

	Valmeyer, Illinois (IL) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hotels, hospitals, schools, crime, ...
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		Discuss Valmeyer, Illinois on our local forum with tens of thousands registered users
		Valmeyer-area historical tornado activity is slightly above Illinois state average.
	www.city-data.com /city/Valmeyer-Illinois.html (1060 words)

	CNN - Illinois town rises to new heights - August 22, 1998
		CNN - Illinois town rises to new heights - August 22, 1998
		VALMEYER, Illinois (CNN) -- Five years ago, the Mississippi River flooded dozens of towns in Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
		It was a U.S. disaster second only to Hurricane Andrew in the scope and cost of the damage.
	www.cnn.com /US/9808/22/new.valmeyer (124 words)

	Illinois Abstracts
		The remaining 26 locations either fell outside the proposed R.O.W. and were not fully evaluated for their potential eligibility, or they had data collected that indicated they would not meet the eligibility criteria established for the National Register of Historic Places.
		In 1993 Illinois Power Company contracted for completion of the analyses, report preparation, and evaluation of these sites, and the excavated material was obtained on loan from the Illinois State Museum.
		The Dennis Hollow phase is defined on the basis of radiocarbon age determinations and the Valmeyer Corner Notched projectile point.
	www.anthro.uiuc.edu /psap/Ill_Abst.html (3754 words)

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