Cape County among drought declarations

Thursday, September 26, 2002

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced that 16 of 26 southern Missouri counties have qualified for drought disaster declarations. The declaration includes five counties --including Cape Girardeau County -- as primary disaster areas and 11 others as contiguous disaster counties.

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