The first phase of restoration work has been completed on a Mississippi River levee that was intentionally breached in 2011 during record flooding.
Flood protection projects are progressing on both sides of the Mississippi River in southeast Missouri and southern Illinois.
A southeast Missouri county has been told it won't be getting any money for damage caused by the activation of the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway last year.
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