Archive for January, 2012

Corps says Illinois levee fixes won’t have significant environmental impact

Friday, January 27th, 2012

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Jan. 26, 2012
By Terry Hillig

The Army Corps of Engineers has published a draft finding that planned levee system improvements in Madison, St. Clair and Monroe counties will have no significant environmental impact.

The agency’s environmental assessment of the project is available online at www.mvs.usace.army.mil/pm/pm-reports.html. The public may comment on the document by contacting Timothy George of the Environmental Compliance Section by telephone at 314-331-8459 or fax at 314-331-8606 or email at Timothy.K.George@usace.army.mil by noon on Feb. 20…more