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http://www.newspressnow.com/localnews/27720463/detail.html

I was not sure what to make of this. Anyone here in that area can confirm this?

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A federal judge on Friday gave the Army Corps of Engineers the go-ahead to break a Mississippi River levee and flood Missouri farmland if the agency deems it necessary to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town upstream.

A day after hearing five hours of testimony over Missouri's bid to block any intentional levee break, U.S. District Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. found the corps' plan to breach the Birds Point levee appropriate to ensure navigation and flood-control along the still-rising Mississippi.

"This court finds that the corps is committed to implementing the (floodway) plan 'only as absolutely essential to provide the authorized protection to all citizens,'" Limbaugh said in his ruling. "Furthermore, this court finds that no aspect of the corps' response to these historic floods suggests arbitrary or capricious decision-making is occurring."

The corps has proposed using explosives to blow a 2-mile-wide hole through the levee in southeast Missouri's Mississippi County, arguably to ease waters rising around the upstream town of Cairo, Ill., near the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

I've not heard or seen this anywhere else. Just looking for some confirmation.

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Well, they blew the levee, and now the parts they wanted to save, are underwater anyways. Trying to save a small rural community of Cairo MO? Take a look on google maps, lucky if there is 100 people living in that area.

Some of the best farmland in the USA is now underwater on purpose.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/05/midwest.flooding/index.html

(CNN) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers intends to continue a controversial plan Thursday to breach a levee on the Mississippi River to help stop catastrophic floods in communities in several states.

The group intends to open the final crevasse in the Birds Point-New Madrid levee, continuing a plan to blast holes in it in an effort to ease unprecedented flood pressure.

They are going to blow it again too.

Sorry I thought Cairo MO, when they were talking about Cairo Il.

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Some of the best farmland in the USA is now underwater on purpose.
So? The Winnipeg floodway is designed to do exactly this: sacrifice farmland so the city can be protected. The government pays compensation to those affected each time and it is a lot less money than letting the city flood.
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Funny you should mention it. We're blowing a levee tomorrow.

But we call them dykes.

Things can always go wrong, but it's the only way to manage the water flow in a desperate situation.

What were they doing out west to come up with so much water?

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