St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 8, 2011
By Terry Hillig

BENTON, Ill. • By the time the debate over Metro East levee  safety reached a judge’s desk in the U.S. District Court in Benton last week,  there wasn’t really a dispute left to litigate.

Federal officials had backed off, albeit barely, an assessment that the system  could no longer be trusted to keep out the Mississippi River. Local officials  were spared, if temporarily, the burden of development restrictions and  mandatory and high-priced flood insurance in the industrial heart of  southwestern Illinois…more

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