DES MOINES (AP) -- Polk County officials have revised the flood forecast for areas in central Iowa and say a reservoir in Saylorville upstream from Des Moines will not flood.
Polk County emergency management coordinator A.J. Mumm says the reservoir is expected to reach a maximum height two feet short of its flooding level on March 28.
The reservoir was previously expected to overflow its control structure, causing an uncontrolled release of water into the Des Moines River and two Des Moines neighborhoods hit hard by flooding in 2008.
Residents of the Birdland neighborhood in Des Moines, where a levee ruptured in 2008, had already begun to pack their belongings and evacuate.
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