Podcasts & RSS Feeds

Birds Point LeveeRSS
All ContentRSS
View all podcasts & RSS feeds

Tagged: Birds Point Levee

Pages

Spring Flooding
12:29 pm
Fri April 29, 2011

Lawmakers weigh-in on pending decision on levee from Army Corps of Engineers

Credit (UPI/Bill Greenblatt)
Mo. State Highway Patrol's Roger Shikles keeps watch while passing a mailbox in Butler County, Mo. on April 26, 2011. A levee had breached in the area. A decision to intentionally break a levee in another flood-threatened area, Cairo, Ill. is pending.
Share
E-mail
Comments
By and

Updated 12:29 p.m. April 29:

Via the Associated Press:

Missouri officials are appealing a federal judge's ruling that says the Army Corps of Engineers can break a levee and flood Missouri farmland if necessary to spare an Illinois town upstream.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. ruled Friday that the corps' plan to breach the Birds Point levee is appropriate to ensure flood-control along the Mississippi. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster appealed to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis a short time later.

Read more

Pages