HOUSE VOTES $10 MILLION FOR AREA FLOOD WORK

The House approved legislation on Wednesday to provide $117 million next year for planning and construction of water projects benefiting Missouri.

Included in the package is $10.3 million for construction of a flood control project in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson area.

The money was part of a $21.5 billion appropriations bill for energy and water projects in the 1992 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1. The measure passed 392-24. The Senate must approve its own version of the legislation.

Here is a breakdown of the money provided for other Missouri-related projects:

-$72.3 million for continued construction of an ongoing lock and dam project on the Mississippi River near Alton, Ill. The measure provides $26.3 million for building of the main 1,200-foot lock at Lock and Dam 26, also known as the Mel Price Lock and Dam, and $46 million for construction of a second lock.

-$15 million for construction on the Blue River channel project in the Kansas City area.

-$5.77 million for continued construction of a flood control project on Brush Creek in the Kansas City area.

-$370,000 for flood control work at Hannibal.

-$4.6 million for continued construction at Truman Reservoir.

-$700,000 for construction of a levee along the Meramec River in Valley Park.

-$5.7 million for navigation work on the Mississippi River between the Missouri and Ohio rivers.

-$140,000 for a survey and preconstruction engineering and design for a flood control project involving the Blue River basin in the Kansas City area.

-$210,000 for a flood damage prevention study of the Cuivre River area, from near Mexico southeast to St. Louis.

-$160,000 for a flood damage prevention study of Dardenne Creek in St. Peters.

-$70,000 for a restudy of a deferred project involving Dry Fork and East Fork Lakes and Fishing River, just east of Kansas City.

-$160,000 for flood damage prevention study of Plattin Creek near Festus and Crystal City.

-$270,000 for an initial survey of a project involving unit L-246, a cutoff lake, on the Missouri River Levee System. This is a new start proposed by the Army Corps of Engineers.

-$124,000 for a special study of water needs in Jefferson County.

-$200,000 for flood damage prevention study in the St. Joseph area.

-$97,000 for a flood damage prevention study of the Wyaconda River basin in northeastern Missouri and in Iowa.

-$125,000 for an ongoing study of flood damage prevention in the Turkey Creek basin in the Kansas City metropolitan area of Kansas and Missouri.

-$160,000 to expand a study of possible development of an industrial site along the Mississippi River in St. Louis County. The Bush administration requested no money for the project, but House Majority Leader Richard Gephardt, a St. Louis Democrat, secured money for the study. Congress provided money in the current budget for the Corps of Engineers to study the possible use of dredge material in developing a port at the site.

-$900,000 for engineering of work in St. Louis harbor. The administration requested no money for the project, which is to correct a siltation problem on the Missouri side and address docking facilities on the Illinois side.