Since I grew up in St.Louis metro, both the Missouri and the Mississippi
are near and dear. When the Corps designed the system on the Missouri the
levees were designed to be further apart. But because of pressure from
local levee districts and people like the Ideckers, the levees were built
closer together.

Since big ag and the barge industry are the reason it is the way it is the
environmentalists and the river recreation people will have to work
together to get this problem solved in a way that improves habitat.

https://thedyrt.com/magazine/local/midwest-floods-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2PhpUXE6C4W5RlB895hliBsSMBegYD8fqIBbdQCaZlkfQMBPMlUBpZCbU

Here is another good article
https://www.americanrivers.org/2019/03/making-room-for-floods-in-the-midwest/?fbclid=IwAR0rC0WkuijXqBx7a9FNZg5GCTsPCGlWA5Mi1JtbNB3CE4usb4ePax_CM9s


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*Fish have to swim, birds have to nest, tell the Corps to do their best*
*Debbie Neustadt *


*Des Moines, Iowa*

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