NEW MADRID — Nearly two years after the Army Corps of Engineers intentionally breached a southeast Missouri levee at the height of Mississippi River flooding, two of the three crevasses have been restored to the levee's original height.
Levee repairs progressing at Birds Point
Tuesday, January 15, 2013 | 8:54 a.m. CST
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