Missouri River Flooding 2011

One Mo. state park still closed, another partially open, nearly 1 year after flood

Marshall Griffin — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 23:45:41 +0000

Progress has been made on one of two flood-damaged state parks in northwest Missouri.

Big Lake and Lewis & Clark State Parks were underwater for several weeks during last summer’s severe flooding along the Missouri River. Lewis and Clark, about 20 miles southwest of St. Joseph, has reopened for day use only. Missouri State Parks Superintendent Bill Bryan says the campground is still closed.

Army Corps says more reservoir space would not have prevented 2011 record floods

Marshall Griffin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:41:12 +0000

An increase in free space within reservoirs would not have made much of a difference in last year’s record flooding along the Missouri River, according to a report released today by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Jody Farhat, the Corps’ Chief Water Manager for the Missouri River, says a higher amount of free space would have only reduced last year’s flooding, not prevented it.

“Due to the tremendous volume of water, we still would have had very high record releases from the reservoirs," Farhat said. "We still would have had a significant flood event in the Missouri basin."

Morning headlines: Friday, April 13, 2012

The Associated Press — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:45:25 +0000

Parks again rejects Durbin's call for earlier night club closings

East St. Louis mayor Alvin Parks is again rejecting a call from Sen. Dick Durbin to institute an earlier closing time for the city’s night clubs and liquor stores

Durbin was in his hometown on Wednesday encouraging area ministers to push Parks for a 1 a.m. closing time. Durbin believes it would help curb the killings in a city that a federal prosecutor has called the nation’s most dangerous.

Missouri gets $16.5M for temp Mo. River, Joplin cleanup jobs

The Associated Press — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 20:58:24 +0000

Missouri will receive a $16.5 million federal grant to fund temporary jobs aimed at helping with large-scale recovery efforts from the 2011 Joplin tornado and from flooding around the state last year.

The U.S. Department of Labor said in a release Tuesday that the $16.5 million grant is from the National Emergency Grant program.

Corps meets deadline in Missouri River levee repairs

The Associated Press — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 20:52:13 +0000

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says it has met its deadline on the most critical levee repairs on the Missouri River from Omaha and Council Bluffs to just below the Missouri border at Rockport and the levees are ready to handle high water again.

The corps says five breaches have been closed and several damaged segments have been repaired from last summer's historic flooding.