Outcome
Following this flood a series of levees and reservoirs were constructed throughout eastern Kansas. This new network of flood control structures helped to prevent widespread damage when the region was hit later by the Great Flood of 1993.
Prior to the flood there were five federal flood control dams in operation in the Kansas River basin:
- Bonny Dam in Colorado
- Enders Dam and Medicine Creek Dam in Nebraska
- Cedar Bluff Dam and Kanopolis Dam in Kansas
Several others had been planned by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, both authorized by the Flood Control Act of 1944.
Since then, many dams have been constructed so that a total of eighteen dams now control the flow of the Kansas River, such as Webster Dam and Kirwin Dam on tributaries of the Solomon River in Kansas. Many other reservoirs and levees were built in nearby in other basins were also built as part of a response to this flood, such as in the Osage River basin above the Lake of the Ozarks.
In 2011 a painting of the flood "Flood Disaster" by Thomas Hart Benton (painter) sold for $1.9 million in an auction at Sotheby's in New York City. Benton had made the painting at the time of the flood and sent lithographs to every member of Congress to support a flood appropriations bill.
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