St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 21, 2011
Terry Hillig

COLLINSVILLE • Strengthening Metro East levees will cost about $151 million and construction should be complete by 2014, if the project goes according to a plan adopted Wednesday by the Southwestern Illinois Flood Prevention District Council…more

KMOX News Radio
July 14, 2011
By Brian Kelly

EDWARDSVILLE, Il (KMOX)-Even if the Senate and President Obama sign off on the bill that would delay the implementation of new flood maps for five years, FEMA’s decertification of the metro east’s levees has already caused irreparable harm to the region’s economy…more

Belleville News-Democrat
July 13, 2011

WASHINGTON – The U.S. House on Tuesday approved an overhaul of the federal  flood insurance program that will give metro-east residents more time before  they would have to buy the costly insurance.

The measure is part of Congress’s efforts to right a four-decade-old federal  flood insurance program that was almost sunk by Hurricane Katrina and other 2005  hurricanes…more

The Telegraph
July 5, 2011

WASHINGTON – Both of Illinois’ U.S. senators and two congressmen from the St. Louis Metro East are asking to meet with a top official of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to discuss the plan to upgrade the region’s Mississippi River levee systems…more