Examiner.com
August 4, 2011
By Ellen Cannon

Madison, St. Clair, and Monroe counties in Illinois breathed a sigh of relief  this week when The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a reprieve  to southwestern Illinois counties that were guarded by levees FEMA deemed  functionally useless. On August 3, 2011, U.S. District Judge J. Phil Gilbert  declared a lawsuit filed by the three counties as moot and chastised FEMA’s  handling of the levee improvement situation in southern Illinois. Judge Gilbert  stated in his fifteen page ruling, “that the levees of the American Bottoms are  accredited and have been accredited at all times relevant to the lawsuit.”…more

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