All interstates in Missouri are now open to traffic after being closed because of flooding along the Mississippi, Missouri and Meramec rivers. In the St. Louis area, Route 21 and Route 30 remain closed at the Meramec River and Route 141 is still closed at I-44 and at Route 21. More than 100 state roads still remain under water throughout the state.

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Amtrak service between St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri is operating again, now that floodwaters have subsided. Amtrak officials say the service resumed Sunday, four days after high water that reached the tracks at some locations forced the passenger service to be halted.

Just three days after ascending to record levels and forcing hundreds of people from their homes, the Meramec River in suburban St. Louis is already back below flood stage in Pacific and Eureka, but remains four feet above flood stage in Valley Park and problems persist in Arnold. The Mississippi is receding in Cape Girardeau, after cresting Friday night at 48.9 feet, about four-tenths of a foot above the 1993 record.

The number of fatalities in the state of Missouri due to flooding has risen to 15 with the recovery on New Year’s Day of the body of a man in Polk County, just downstream from where a motorist was swept away by flood water on December 26.

A suburban St. Louis water plant shut down by flooding is working again. The water plant at High Ridge, Missouri had been out of operation since Wednesday. It began operating again Sunday morning, though residents are being told to continue to boil water before drinking it or cooking with it as purification efforts aren’t yet at normal levels. The plant serves about 20,000 people in an area south of St. Louis in Jefferson County.

(Staff and wire reports)