Instead of sending the little boy to plug up the hole in the dike they're sending the Army Corps of Engineers to blast a hole into the Missouri levee.
Monday May 2 the Army Corp of Engineers blew up a levee along the Mississippi River in hopes to relieve stress from high water levels on other levees that were protecting towns.
With the destruction of the levee they are sending 396,000 cubic feet per second of water onto 200 square miles of fertile Missouri farmland, reported CNN.
A federal judge made this ruling on Friday giving the go ahead for the levee to be breached. But Missouri wasn't giving up without a fight. They filed a suit to prevent the Corps from moving forward with their plan. However the judge ruled in favor of the Corps saying, "this Court finds that no aspect of the Corps' response to these historic floods suggests arbitrary or capricious decision-making is occurring," as stated in an article on Yahoo News.
With the removal of the levee it is hopes to prevent the flooding of the city Cairo, Illinois, however with the sacrifice of farm land that could not be drained of water until late summer or even early fall, according to www.KAIT8.com.
The Agriculture Secretary, Tom Vilsack, did say that "insurance reimbursements will be available to flooded-out farmers is southeast Missouri," according to www.KAIT8.com. However the reimbursement will not be given to those without crop insurance.
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