MO SCR15

U.S. Corps of Engineers' five-year study of the Upper Mississippi River Basin failed to produce a flood control plan acceptable to all stakeholders, with the Mississippi River Commission recommending Plan H but the Corps declining to endorse it due to $6 billion construction costs for 500-year levees not meeting federal cost-benefit guidelines

Plan H would raise only about half of the levees in Missouri counties of Lincoln, Pike, and St. Charles while recommending higher percentages of 500-year levees in northern areas, creating unequal flood protection

Over 6,500 citizens have signed petitions opposing Plan H, citing negative impacts to agriculture, transportation, businesses, tourism, and rural communities in the affected Missouri counties

Missouri strongly urges Congress to support a comprehensive Upper Mississippi River Basin plan that enhances system-wide flood control without creating adverse impacts on existing levees and communities, and asks the Missouri Congressional delegation to oppose Plan H

Secretary of the Missouri Senate shall distribute copies of this resolution to each member of the Missouri Congressional delegation