Dozens of Levees May be Overtopped This Week
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has issued a warning that about two dozen levees in the region, in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa, could be overtopped by floodwaters this week. The water is expected to continue to rise by several more feet this week as the flood waters from the north move into the region, and 26-27 levees between Davenport Iowa and St Louis may be overtopped if rapid sandbagging is not completed in time. Some of the communites at high risk include Qunicy and Alton Illinois, Hannibal Missouri, and parts of St Louis can expect moderate flooding.
Flood stages at St Louis are expected to reach to a few inches below the top of the Choteau Island levee (40 feet) which protects 2400 acres. Another concern is that some parts of the levee system that protect the Metro East area (Granite City, East St Louis, Cahokia, Wood River) have been determined by the US Army Corps of Engineers to be partly structurally deficient, and prone to underseepage, with a slight risk of liquefaction and failure. Approximately 150,000 people live behind those levees.
Keep a close watch on conditions if you live in potentially affected areas.
Tim Kusky is a professor of natural sciences and director of the Center for Environmental Science at St. Louis University. His research and teaching have focused on the fields of plate tectonics and the early history of the Earth, as well as natural hazards and disasters, satellite imagery, mineral and water resources and relationships between people and the natural environment. 
I live in Massachusetts and would like to know the status of the flooding in Sainte Genevieve. Can’t find any info on the Net. I’m homing it makes it through another deluge.