The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must pay more attention to flood control, update its data-gathering technology and procedures, and improve its collaboration and communication efforts. However, it first must repair damaged Missouri River levees before this spring’s flood season starts.
While some of those recommendations were made by an independent review panel that studied the Corps' actions during last summer’s record floods, others came from Midwesterners whose homes were destroyed after the structures sat in floodwaters for more than three months.