Corps gets $3 million to repair Birds Point to 55 feet

Sunday, October 23, 2011

DORENA, Mo. -- If the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers could order up 80 straight days of weather like Friday's -- 65 degrees and sunny -- then the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway levee would be rebuilt to 55 feet by the middle of February.

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