Articles include:

• 09/26/08 – Area levee checks will continue – the Intelligencer.com
• 09/23/08 – FEMA eases mandate on Metro East flood insurance – 
thetelegraph.com
• 09/08/08 – American Bottom to be hit with expensive flood insurance
mandate – Illinois Business Journal
• 09/02/08 – Monroe County: Flood District recommends tax – Monroe 
County Clarion
• 08/07/08 – Madison County board may impose sales tax to aid levee 
repair – bnd.com
• 07/30/08 – Monroe County residents look at new flood maps; more land 
said to be at risk – bnd.com
• 07/29/08 – St. Clair County Board OKs levee tax, rejects development 
plan – bnd.com
• 07/20/08 – Report outlines costs of flood, levee work – thetelegraph.com
• 07/10/08 – Public should attend FEMA meetings – thetelegraph.com
• 07/06/08 – Leaders tackle levee repair issues
• 07/05/08 – COLUMBIA: Engineers fix sand boils – Clarion
• 07/05/08 – Public to get say on flood risk maps – thetelegraph.com
• 07/01/08 – St. Clair County OKs flood prevention district; moves toward 
sales tax – bnd.com
• 07/01/08 – $34 million Wood River levee upgrades to begin – bnd.com

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Articles include:

• 06/24/08 – Urgency of levee fixes reinforced by flooding – bnd.com
• 06/19/08 – Madison County creates Flood Protection District to fix levees – bnd.com
• 06/19/08 – Madison County focuses on flood prevention – STLtoday.com
• 06/19/08 – Dunstan says flooding will be minor in Madison County – 
bnd.com
• 06/18/08 – Mississippi expected to crest Monday in region – bnd.com
• 06/18/08 – Utilities scramble as flooding delays coal supply – STLtoday
.com
• 06/17/08 – Editorial: The flood this time – STLtoday.com
• 06/08/08 – Leaders tout levee efforts – thetelegraph.com
• 05/27/08 – Monroe County to ask voters whether they support sales tax 
to fix levees – bnd.com
• 05/27/08 – Before the Flood – STLToday.com
• 05/12/08 – Army Corps: Condition of many levees a mystery – 
Associated Press
• 04/26/08 – City opposed to county-wide levee tax – Monroe County 
Clarion
• 04/05/08 – Turf battle may rise from levee project – Granite City Press
-Record
• 04/09/08 – Columbia opposes sales tax for levees – bnd.com
• 04/02/08 – Sterman Testifies on Flood Map Issue Before House 
Subcommittee-Congressman Jerry Costello Press Release

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Articles include:

• 03/31/08 – Flooding revives debate over levees – STLToday.com
• 03/29/08 – The flood factor – Edwardsville Journal
• 03/11/08 – County takes look at levees – edwardsville.com
• 03/08/08 – Contracts awarded in levee restoration effort – The 
Telegraph
• 03/05/08 – Metro-east officials talk with Durbin on levees – Belleville 
News-Democrat
• 03/02/08 – Task force working on levee problem – The Telegraph
• 03/02/08 – Depending on Durbin – bnd.com
• 03/02/08 – 4 firms hired to plan $180 million levee project – bnd.com
• 02/29/08 – Metro-east leaders learn more about $180 million needed 
forlevees – bnd.com
• 02/26/08 – St. Clair County OKs $1.25 million for levee planning
 – bnd.com
• 02/25/08 – Premier 370 buildings are on hold awaiting FEMA’s OK
 – STLToday.com
• 02/21/08 – When the levees break – STLToday.com
• 02/20/08 – Fighting floods and politics – bnd.com
• 02/10/08 – Levee repair: Metro-east faces major challenge – bnd.com
• 02/03/08 – No way out of this sales tax – bnd.com

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Articles include:

• 12/12/07 – Work begins on Chain of Rocks levee berms – Belleville News Democrat
• 12/07/07 – Repairs on Metro East Levees May Mean Tax Hikes – STLToday.com
• 12/07/07 – Sauget sees opportunity in Sauget – STLToday.com
• 12/07/07 – Investment in Southwestern Illinois continues to grow – STLToday.com
• 08/23/07 – More may need flood insurance – STLToday.com

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