MO HCR31

United States Corps of Engineers' five-year study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin failed to produce a flood control plan acceptable to all stakeholders.

Plan H, recommended by the Mississippi River Commission, estimates $6 billion in costs to construct 500-year levees but the Corps of Engineers did not recommend it due to cost-benefit concerns.

Plan H designates only about half of the levees in Missouri counties of Lincoln, Pike, and St. Charles be raised while recommending higher percentages of 500-year levees to the north, making Missouri counties the lowest points on the levee system.

Over 6,500 citizens have signed petitions opposing Plan H, citing negative impacts on agriculture, transportation, businesses, infrastructure, and residences in affected counties.

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