MS Flooding. Corps of Engineers plan to blow levee in MO
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JAC on 4/28/2011, 6:08 am
Missouri tries to block plan to breach Mississippi River levee
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/26/missouri.floodway/
(CNN) -- Missouri's attorney general turned to a federal court Tuesday to stop a federal plan to blow a levee to ease pressure on the flood-engorged Mississippi River.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plan would flood more than 130,000 evacuated acres in southeastern Missouri, much of it in Mississippi County, said Attorney General Chris Koster.
"The flooding would leave a layer of silt on the farmland that could take as much as a generation to clear, causing significant injury to the quality of the farmland for many years," Koster said in a statement about the lawsuit.
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/article_cb807a1e-7023-11e0-8499-001a4bcf6878.html
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