WASHINGTON, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 3, 2011. U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) today released the following statement after being briefed by federal and state officials on the impact of yesterday’s decision by Major General Michael Walsh of the Army Corps of Engineers to intentionally breach the levee at Birds Point in order relieve pressure to levees downstream and potentially save Cairo, Illinois – a town of roughly 3,000 people – from devastating floods.
