A new study suggests the Army Corps of Engineers made the right decision when it blew up the Birds Point-New Madrid levee last year.
The study’s authors argue the floodway would have been inundated with or without Corps action.
Ken Olson is a soil sciences professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and he co-authored the study.
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon says he needed to cover all his bases before proposing to add $40 million to his higher education budget.