A letter from Missouri Governor Jay Nixon is on its way to the Army Corps of Engineers expressing the need to restore a Holt County Levee.

The Governor is calling on the Corps to pay for the entire cost of repair estimated at about four million dollars. Holt County Levee L497, protects roughly 8,000 acre’s of farmland and Forest City. The Corps removed the levee from their program this year.

The Governor says the Corps of Engineers refuse to help the Forest City Levee District with rehabilitation of the levee. The Governor calls that action unjust.

That levee failed during flooding this year caused by record releases from the Gavins Point Dam and a record amount of runoff into upstream Missouri River reservoirs.