How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others

A map of the Mississippi river demonstrating the dangers of overbuilt levees.
How Overbuilt Levees Along the Upper Mississippi River Push Floods Onto Others, via ProPublica

Levees are a fact of life along the Middle Mississippi River, north of St. Louis, but this article shows how complicated the levee network is. Levees that have been illegally raised force water onto other communities.