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Tuesday April 26, 2011--Barge traffic moves along the channel of the flooding Mississippi River just north of where the Ohio River joins the Mississippi near Cairo Illinois on Tuesday. The Army Corps of Engineers has delayed its plan to dynamite a hole in the Bird's Point levee on the Mississippi River and flood 132,000 acres of mostly farm land to relieve pressure from the rising river. The channel of the Mississippi is marked by the line of trees that show where the normal banks of the river are. David Carson dcarson@post-dispatch.com 
  
 UPDATED 5:30 p.m. on evacuation in Mississippi County 
  
 The Army Corps of Engineers has delayed its plan to blow a levee on the Mississippi River in southeast Missouri and flood 132,000 acres to relieve pressure from the rising river. 
  
 A spokeswoman at the Corps office in Memphis, which covers the Mississippi below its confluence with the Ohio River at Cairo, Ill., said this afternoon, "They haven't made a decision. They are positioning people and moving up barges in case, but they will not do anything today." 
  
 Corps leaders are to meet again Wednesday in Memphis. In Cape Girardeau, Mo., meanwhile, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster asked the U.S. District Court to block the levee-blasting idea. 
  
 Because the decision had been expected today, several hundred residents who live on the 34-mile-long New Madrid Floodway were evacuated Monday and today. Its path, which would be inundated by the levee break, is in Mississippi County, Mo. 
  
 The Corps designated the floodway in 1928, one year after a major flood on the lower Mississippi. 
  
 Even with the Corps decision in limbo, officials there still want people to stay out of the sparsely populated floodway. 
  
 "It's a very frustrating situation," said Janice McCameron, of the county sheriff's office in Charleston, Mo. "It's still wise for peole to evacuate. Just because the Corps won't blow the levee yet doesnt mean there won't be flooding." 
  
 The floodway has not been used since 1937, the record flood for that area below Cairo. Major floods on the Mississippi north of the Ohio, including the record one in 1993, were lesser events once the two rivers met. 
  
 Bird's Point, where the dynamite would be set, is about 130 air miles south of St. Louis. The Ohio is expected to set a record at Cairo on Friday. It already is 17 feet above flood stage today at Cairo and is forecast to rise another four feet by Friday. That would be one foot higher than the record, set in 1937. 
  
 At Cape Girardeau, the Mississippi is expected to crest Friday about four feet lower than its 1993 record. The Mississippi, running only about three feet over flood at St. Louis, reaches progressively higher levels on river gauges the closer it gets to the swollen Ohio. 
  
 McCameron said the floodway area is from four to 12 miles inland from the river. Another line of levees protects the rest of the county. She said area churches are on standby to provide shelter and help for displaced people if necessary. 
  
 On Monday, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced his opposition to blowing the levee. 
  
 In Cairo, residents of nursing homes have been evacuated, and there is a voluntary evacuation call for the rest of the city, said Rose Burris, city payroll clerk. Burris said the U.S. 51 bridge over the Ohio was closed Monday when the rising Ohio swamped the bridge approach on the Kentucky side. 
  
 Burris said blowing the Bird's Point levee would be good for Cairo because it would make room for the Ohio's flow. 
  
 Much of southern Missouri and the lower Ohio River valley eastward into Kentucky have received 10 or more inches of rain during the past week. Areas around Poplar Bluff, Mo., where the Black River breached a levee, received 16 inches over the past five days, according to the National Weather Service. 
  
 In the past week, St. Louis received 4.5 inches. 
  
 In Missouri's Stoddard and Scott counties, northwest of Mississippi County, swollen drainage channels have broken through levees in two places, one near Bell City and another near Perkins, said Dale Moreland, Stoddard County emergency spokesman. 
  
 Moreland said water had risen into 25 to 30 homes near the channels. ||||| KANSAS CITY, Mo | 
  
 KANSAS CITY, Mo (Reuters) - The Missouri attorney general filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday asking a judge to stop the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' plans to detonate the levee at Birds Point on the Mississippi River. 
  
 Attorney General Chris Koster said the Corps, which manages the river, is preparing to intentionally breach the levee in hopes of keeping Cairo, Illinois, from flooding. Koster said demolition of the levee will cause serious flooding across as much as 130,000 acres of Mississippi County, Missouri. 
  
 A law enacted in the 1920s requires the Corps to blow up the levee if the gauge at Cairo reaches a certain water level. But Koster believes the law is "unclear" as to whether the Corps actually has the authority to make the decision to detonate. 
  
 "There are no 'good' options at this juncture," said Koster in a statement. But he said given the long-term effects of the government's proposal on Missouri citizens, the state wants a review by the federal court. 
  
 A spokesperson for the Corps was not immediately available for comment. 
  
 Koster said the flooding would leave a layer of silt that could take a generation to clear, causing significant injury to the quality of the farmland. The flooding also would affect 100 homes. 
  
 About 100 people have already agreed to voluntarily evacuate Cairo, which is at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, according to Cairo Fire Department Captain Brandon Manker. 
  
 One problem the area is experiencing is that the Ohio and Mississippi rivers are flooding at the same time, and the Ohio, which usually drains into the bigger river, can't do so, according to Buddy Rogers, spokesman for the Kentucky Division of Emergency Management. 
  
 There has been flooding along the Ohio River from Cincinnati to the Mississippi, according to the National Weather Service. 
  
 (Additional reporting by Kevin Murphy; Writing by Mary Wisniewski; Editing by Jerry Norton) |||||
The Midwest is keeping a nervous eye on its levees—and now on the courts as well. Missouri's attorney general today filed suit in federal court to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from blowing up a levee on the Mississippi River, reports Reuters. The corps is preparing to detonate the levee in southern Missouri to relieve river pressure and prevent massive flooding in populated areas downstream, specifically Cairo, Illinois. The problem is that strategy would flood 130,000 acres of farmland in Missouri, and the state has questioned the corps' legal authority to go ahead with the plan. "I don't want one person in the corps to make decision ... without even seeing the area," AG Chris Koster tells Fox News. "We need to make sure flooding all these acres of farmland is the only option." The corps, meanwhile, postponed its final decision on the plan until tomorrow, notes the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.