The New Madrid Floodway Project is an ongoing project intended to close a 1,500-foot (460 m) gap in the Mississippi River Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway levee at New Madrid County, Missouri, to decrease southeast Missouri's vulnerability to flooding. This area is also called the St. Johns Bayou Basin and is located near Bird's Point, Missouri.
Although authorization for the move was authorized by Congress as early as 1954, the gap remains; as environmental groups, local citizens, and politicians wrestle the issue through the courts.
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