Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway: Redesign, reconstruction, and restoration

The year 2011 was one of extreme weather, with 14 events in the United States causing losses in excess of one billion dollars each (Coumou and Rahmstorf 2012). The southeast Missouri region adjacent to the Lower Mississippi River well illustrates the local impacts on agriculture and human settlements when early snow melt and record rainfall over the Ohio River Valley and lands in the Lower Mississippi River result in saturated soils, extreme...