by admin | Nov 25, 2008 | News
A winter of work remains as the Army Corps of Engineers tries to fix what floodwaters broke this past spring. It wasn’t the flood of ’93, but don’t tell that to residents of northeast Missouri who lost homes, businesses and an entire crop season due...
by admin | Nov 15, 2008 | News
Lincoln County is getting an extra $1.4 million in federal aid to repair levees damaged by flooding in June and July. The governor’s office has announced the award which is in addition to the $6 million given the state by the US Army Corps of Engineers for levee...
by admin | Aug 21, 2008 | Politics / Govt
Next time, the US Army Corps of Engineers might allow farmland to be flooded, on purpose. The Corps has devised a plan to prevent the massive flooding that took out cities and towns, wiped out crops and devastated the upper Mississippi River earlier this year. The...
by admin | Jun 27, 2008 | Weather
An emergency worker at Winfield says the volunteers and workers there have responded admirably, despite the crushing news this morning that floodwaters breached the last in tact levee in Lincoln County. Brad Farber is coordinating the American Red Cross emergency...
by admin | Jun 26, 2008 | Weather
Floodwaters along the Mississippi River keep the pressure on battered levees, with tension rising among those working non-stop each and every time it rains. Brad Farber, supervisor of the St. Charles County American Red Cross Service Center, says much work has kept a...
