Corps working round-the-clock to rebuild Birds Point levee ahead of bad weather

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

More than six months after the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway levee was intentionally breached, the threat of rain has again become the enemy of Mississippi County farmers desperate to have crop-saving flood protection.

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