The Themis Street floodgate will be closed at 9 a.m. today, according to Stacey Beasley, storm-water supervisor with the Cape Girardeau Public Works Department.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has predicted the Mississippi River level to be at 34.1 feet today. Flood stage is 32 feet.
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