A Missouri
Congressman says the Missouri River needs the infrastructure that the
Mississippi River has to prevent severe flooding. Jason Smith’s southeast Missouri district has
more than 200 miles of the Mississippi River which he says was at flood stage
for 150 days this year, between Cape Girardeau and Cairo, without activation of
the levees, “You look at the effects of the flooding that we had south of Cape
Girardeau and it could have been SO much worse than it was but it was because
of the infrastructure that was brought forward through the MRT project, the
Mississippi Rivers and Tributaries project.”
That project
was authorized by the flood control act of 1928 after devastating flooding in
1927.
Continue reading Smith says Mississippi River model for flood control at Brownfield Ag News.
