ShareRick Mansfield, who writes periodically for Traveler, including the Irb Ellerman story in the September issue, also sends out occasional news reports from his home town of Ellington. This is a big fish story we received at Traveler on August 29. Rick didn’t say, but we’re guessing it was in the St. Francis or on [...]

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Text and photos by Luann Holst
It seems like such an easy question, but like life, the answer is a little more complicated. The answer depends on the answer to this question, “HOW are they going to fix T Highway?”
I spoke to Barry Horst, District Design Engineer for MODOT, [...]

ShareGeocaching is the hottest new trend that has become a favorite pastime for a lot of folks. What is geocaching? It’s like treasure hunting using a GPS unit to locate a geocache site. Each site varies in size and contents and in its degree of difficulty in finding. But beware! [...]

ShareWappapello Lake – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake, Missouri Department of Conservation, and the University of Missouri, in cooperation with National Wild Turkey Federation, are sponsoring a Mobility Impaired Modern Gun Deer Hunt to be held on October 22 and 23, 2011. Applications are being accepted through September 2, [...]

Share Status Report from Lake Wappapello Army Corps:
Personnel from the Wappapello Lake Project Office will host a series of informational meetings regarding the recovery and reopening of facilities and State Route T in the coming weeks.
The first meeting will be on May 24, 2011, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. with [...]

ShareThe last week of high water, with the washout of T Highway at the Wappapello Dam, has put a crimp in traveling to some area businesses, but they want you to know as the water retreats, they’re now becoming accessible again.
“The phone has been ringing off the hook,” said Debbie Worley, “people have been [...]

ShareThese images are from the US ACE Team St. Louis Flickr site. They tell their own story:

ShareArmy Corps of Engineers news release for Lake Wappapello:
Some quick figuring reveals that current outflow of the lake is about 2/3 normal flow of the springtime Mississippi River at St. Louis.
The Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake in Southeast Missouri reports that
the Lake Stage as of 6:00 pm, May 2, 2011 is 399.25 (new record [...]

ShareWater is over the emergency spillway at Lake Wappapello. Lake is at about 398 feet, with a crest expected at 399.2 on Tuesday.
The Corps of Engineers at Wappapello Lake in Southeast Missouri reported that the Lake Stage as of 8:00 AM on May 2, 2011 is 398.28. Current outflow from Wappapello [...]

ShareWappapello Lake, Mo. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Louis District has closed Missouri Highway T at Wappapello Dam in coordination with the Missouri Department of Transportation.
The closure allows for the safe construction of a temporary rock dike along the lake side of the dam’s spillway. The dike will help keep high water [...]