Corps to hire private firms to complete Birds Point levee restoration
Sunday, March 25, 2012
With funding firmly in place, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is targeting mid-June to continue its efforts to restore the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway levee to what it was before three holes that totaled almost four miles long were blasted in it last May.
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