Smith says Mississippi River model for flood control

Smith says Mississippi River model for flood control

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.

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