By MATT PIKE St. Joseph Post Levee repairs along the Missouri River are ongoing and the Army Corps of Engineers has granted its largest contract ever for the Kansas City District to repair and raise the levee protecting St. Joseph as well as Elwood, Wathena, and Rosecrans Memorial Airport. The contract totals 14-Million dollars. It is the fifth in a series of six contracts to improve flood control in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas. Project manager Craig Weltig with the Army Corps of Engineers says the work will raise the levees. "We have a raise of an average of like one foot on the left bank and a raise up to three and a half feet on the right bank," Weltig tells KFEQ/St. Joseph Post. "So, the improvements consist of like I said levee raises, under seepage berms including stability berms on the backside, directly on the backside of the levee." The cost of improvements to the levees will be shared by the federal government and local jurisdictions with
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