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Here you will find the latest progress of the FixTheLevee effort.
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Several Illinois counties granted disaster declaration
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn announced that 14 Illinois counties have been granted a federal disaster declaration. Under the federal declaration, people and businesses in Alexander, Franklin, Gallatin, Hardin, Jackson, Lawrence, Massac, Perry, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, Saline, White and Williamson counties are now eligible to apply for federal disaster assistance. People who were affected by spring flooding on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers in Southern Illinois have ...
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Still fighting the flood
The Great Flood of 2011 has not gone away, even though the water has gone down in Southeast Missouri. The flood's stench still sours the Mississippi County floodway south of Birds Point where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers one month ago Thursday destroyed the levee that protected thousands of acres of fertile farm land. The decision of course was not an easy one, but done in order to relieve pressure upriver, including the town of ...
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The SavetheDelta Website
Welcome to the SavetheDelta website. We are happy to bring you such a great site that will educated those that don't know what has happened first hand with hundreds or images and video that tell the story. We want you ( those direct affected ) to reach out to your local officials and send letters to the White House so that we can get the aid we need to get our Levee System rebuilt and ...
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Water still a concern to residents in New Madrid County
Late Tuesday evening, water still rushed over the roads new Dorena on the south end of the area affected by the Birds Point levee breach. It's quite a different scene from the north end near Pinhook. Both areas sustained major damage as the water rushed in, but near Dorena more water remains. "It looks like a bomb went off. That's what they did they bombed us," said Milus Wallace who lives near Dorena. "It looks more ...
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FOR EXPERT COMMENT: Southeast Missouri Flooded Farmlands are too Important to U.S. Economy Not to Restore, MU Professor Says
June 13, 2011 Story Contact(s): Christian Basi, BasiC@missouri.edu, 573-882-4430 COLUMBIA, Mo. — On May 2, 2011, the Army Corps of Engineers blew a two-mile hole on the 35-mile-long Bird’s Point-New Madrid floodway in an effort to save several towns along the flooded Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. The flooding covered 134,000 acres of land, but most of the flood waters have subsided. A University of Missouri professor says now is the time to restore the land to agricultural use ...
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