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Flooding causes road closures in mid-Missouri

Russell Chapin — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:13:35 +0000

Flooding from thunder storms has caused a large number of road closures in mid-Missouri, Thursday.

Congressmen aim to improve river management during droughts and floods

St. Louis Public Radio — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:57:48 +0000

Two freshman Congressmen from southern Illinois want the Army Corps of Engineers to start thinking of ways it can coordinate river management to keep cargo traffic flowing during droughts or floods.

Mud and Moonscape: Missouri towns struggle with flood recovery

Abbie Fentress Swanson — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 22:37:25 +0000

Back in April, Harvest Public Media’s Grant Gerlock headed to Tekamah, Neb., to see how planting was going for farmers on the Missouri River floodplain. The river's surging waters put thousands of farm acres in Nebraska under water last summer, causing more than $100 million in crop losses in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas and Missouri.

Mo. River gets boost from northern reservoirs

Associated Press — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:53:55 +0000

The same reservoirs in northern states that were blamed for last year's flooding on the Missouri River are now giving the river a boost during a severe drought.

Work to resume at damaged Mo. levee

Associated Press — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:35:15 +0000

Work is resuming on the intentionally breached Birds Point levee in southeast Missouri now that a protest to a construction bid has been deemed "without merit" by the Army Corps of Engineers.

An Oklahoma company last month protested the $20 million in contracts awarded to three other companies to rebuild the levee, which was intentionally breached at the height of 2011 flooding along the Mississippi River. The breach relieved pressure on the flood wall at nearby Cairo, Ill., but damaged 130,000 acres of rich Missouri farmland and dozens of homes.

Politicians meet in Columbia, talk flooding

Marshall Griffin — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:24:46 +0000

State and federal leaders are gathering in Columbia tomorrow to talk about ways to prevent last year’s devastating floods in northwest and southeastern Missouri.

Trooper's body found in NW Missouri

Associated Press — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:23:23 +0000

The body of a Missouri highway patrolman who disappeared while watching over flooded areas last summer was found Thursday not far from the original search area, authorities said.