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Officials Point Finger At Valley Park Levee

Water over the top of Marshall Road in Kirkwood. photo by Diana Linsley.

Water over the top of Marshall Road in Kirkwood. photo by Diana Linsley, Webster-Kirkwood Times.

“We had a torrent, a white water situation coming down at us in Fenton,” Fenton Mayor Mike Polizzi said. “To give you an idea of what happened, that house that went under our bridge raced down to us all the way from Eureka. The Meramec is not the same river and it’s troubling.”

To hear the Environmental Echo interview with Professor Bob Criss click on audio below.

 

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The Historic St. Louis Flooding: What We Should Have Known

Pictured: Bob Criss. Photo provided by Bob Criss.

Pictured: Bob Criss at the Meramec River last October. Photo provided by Bob Criss.

“Our flood problems in St. Louis and St. Louis County have been hugely magnified by what I would call idiotic decisions since 1993 especially,” Bob Criss said. “And we knew better.”

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