Save farmland, not town, from flood

The federal government’s Army Corps of Engineers destroying a section of the levees to inundate 200 square miles of farmland, destroying crops and over 100 homes and farms is reprehensible.

And for what?

To preserve the town of Cairo. This is a dying town with less than 3000 people in it. It was built back in the 1800s when river travel was the only way to get around.

It is located at the confluence of two of the largest rivers in the country. It is asking to be destroyed whenever heavy rains causing potential flooding occurs — and they do occur.

This town should have been condemned decades ago so that no one would have to worry if this area flooded and the alternative action of willful destruction of prime farms and farmland need not have been considered.

And now the water rushes to New Orleans ...

Roger Blank

Lake Zurich