MO SCR8

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' five-year study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin failed to produce a flood control plan acceptable to stakeholders, with the Corps citing $6 billion construction costs for 500-year levees as not cost effective

Mississippi River Commission recommended Plan H to Congress, but the Corps did not endorse it, expressing concerns about needing better data on hydrology and potential flooding ramifications from additional levees

Plan H would raise only about half the levees in Missouri counties of Lincoln, Pike, and St. Charles while recommending 500-year levees for both sides of the River to the north, making these counties the lowest points on the levee system

Resolution urges Congress to support a comprehensive Upper Mississippi River Basin flood control plan without creating adverse impacts on levees, levee districts, rural communities, agriculture, transportation, and infrastructure, and asks Missouri's Congressional delegation to oppose Plan H

Secretary of the Missouri Senate instructed to send copies of this resolution to each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation