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farmer in Northwest Missouri whose lower fields are too flooded to plant says
he supports making flood control the TOP priority of the Corps of Engineers
Missouri River management plan, “One of the reasons we have water here still
over our fields is because the Corps won’t let our local levee board open up a
levee to let this out.”
Richard
Oswald says the infrastructure is 80 to 90 years old, “And all these levees and
all these dams and things were built for conditions and the situation they had
back then in the 1930s and ‘40s.”
He says the lower breach that opened after they were flooded in March is maintaining a higher than necessary level of water where he lives.
Continue reading Farmer: Corps won’t allow local levee control amid floods at Brownfield Ag News.
