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Flood Plan 2012 Arkansas Water Science Center, Little Rock, Arkansas Dan Wagner, Hydrologist 10/1/2011 INTRODUCTION The southern Midwestern United States has been recognized as a hotspot for flooding, given its proximity to the Gulf of Mexico (O’Connor and Costa, 2003). The state of Arkansas is particularly prone to extreme flooding because of the steep, rugged nature of the topography of the Ouachita Mountains and the Ozark Plate