About: MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway

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The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back into the Arkansas downstream of the city.

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  • The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back into the Arkansas downstream of the city. (en)
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  • 1936-06-22 (xsd:date)
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  • May 1950 (en)
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  • March 1959 (en)
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  • Arkansas River near Derby, Kansas (en)
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  • M. S. “Mitch” Mitchell (en)
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  • Upstream view of the Floodway from Central Avenue in west Wichita (en)
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  • MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway (en)
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  • City of Wichita, Kansas (en)
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  • Little Arkansas River in north Wichita, Kansas (en)
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  • The MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway, formerly the Wichita-Valley Center Floodway and known locally as “The Big Ditch”, is a canal in Wichita, Kansas, United States. Built in the 1950s after a series of floods in the preceding decades, the Floodway diverts water from Chisholm Creek, the Little Arkansas River, and the Arkansas River to the west, around central Wichita, before emptying back into the Arkansas downstream of the city. (en)
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  • MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway (en)
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  • MS Mitch Mitchell Floodway (en)
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