Water seeping under a levee near the Mel Price Lock and Dam in Alton.
A plague of “sand boils” undermining an important Mississippi River levee in Alton is an ominous reminder of the critical need for extensive flood protection improvements in the…
Metro East businesses and homeowners have been living on borrowed time.
Five levees along the Mississippi River from Alton to Columbia, Ill., are inadequate to protect low-lying communities from what’s called a 100-year flood. They have been deficient for years. But…
Here’s an advance look at one of the editorials that will appear in Tuesday’s Post-Dispatch and online at STLtoday.com/news/editorials.
HIGH WATER, HARD CHOICE
Some things in life are inevitable. Death and taxes rank right up there. So does flooding along the Meramec,…
