that will be flooded if the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decides to blow up a Mississippi River levee.
The Missouri attorney general has filed a federal lawsuit asking a judge to stop the Corps from detonating the levee at Birds Point. The Corps will likely decide this weekend whether to intentionally breach the levee in hope of keeping the historic river town of Cairo, Illinois from flooding.
Missouri claims demolition of the levee would damage the farmland, leaving a layer of silt that would take a generation to clear. But Cairo's mayor believes the Corps must act to save lives.
"The city of Cairo is on the verge
of being the next 9th Ward of New Orleans,"
- said Mayor Judson Childs
- said Mayor Judson Childs
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