Birds Point Levee

Members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Missouri National Guard survey a levy breach in Butler County, Missouri on April 26, 2011. The levee along the Black River has breached in several places, forcing authorities to evacuate residents.

Corps Pumps Explosive Mixture to Birds Point Levee

The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to halt a plan by the Army Corps of Engineers to blast open a levee to relieve the rain-swollen Mississippi…

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Plan to burst Mississippi River levee may proceed, appeals court says; area has been evacuated

Rob Koenig

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 30, 2011 - The Army Corps of Engineers has moved barges into place at the Birds Point-New…

Mo. State Highway Patrol's Roger Shikles keeps watch while passing a mailbox in Butler County, Mo. on April 26, 2011. A levee had breached in the area. A decision to intentionally break a levee in another flood-threatened area, Cairo, Ill. is pending.

Lawmakers weigh-in on pending decision on levee from Army Corps of Engineers

Updated 12:29 p.m. April 29: Via the Associated Press:Missouri officials are appealing a federal judge's ruling that says the Army Corps of Engineers can…

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Opponents ask Corps of Engineers to consider alternatives to detonating Bootheel levee

Rob Koenig

This article first appeared in the St. Louis Beacon, April 27, 2011 - On Jan. 25, 1937, an intentional blast breached a key levee in Missouri's Bootheel…