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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inched closer Saturday to blowing a hole in a Mississippi River levee to try to keep flood waters out of a small Illinois town after a federal appeals court declined to stop the move.
The corps moved a pair of barges loaded with the makings of an explosive sludge into position near the Birds Point levee in Missouri, but said it hadn’t yet decided that it needed to breach the 60-foot-high earthen wall to protect Cairo, Ill.
More than half that town’s 2,800 residents had been evacuated from the area, local police said.
