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MISSOURI PROPERTY RIGHTS This website
opened on 9/23/02 & is operated by Maureen Morris.
While its scope is
statewide, focus is on the U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS' VALLEY PARK, MO LEVEE Project entangled with
Municipal Redevelopment, Tax Increment Financing & Eminent Domain.
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Just north of Interstate 44 & State Hwy 141, this project features a 3.1-mile levee. In 11/92, the USACE estimated the levee's Total Project Cost at $15.4 Million & completion by the mid-to-late 90's. In 10/05 with that Total Project Cost at $49,000,000 (FORTY- NINE MILLION DOLLARS), the USACE declared it only "substantially complete".
While gainful employment is enjoyed by the USACE, attorneys, appraisers, surveyors, contractors, consultants, etc, the existing private investors, business & landowners, continue to pay high insurance premiums even in 3/06. Property improvements that bring returns on investments are postponed & jeopardized year after year. Some have given up & moved out. Personally, after 15 years of surviving floods, I am drowning in the levee project; condemned twice, convinced of a land grab & police coercion.
Info from The Justice Dept & State Auditor's office is that the responsible city officials themselves! must request & approve!! an IN-DEPTH audit of levee finances, policies & procedures, OR We The People must provide evidence & PROOF of wrong-doing; then they'll start their investigation!
Despite shallow pockets, insufficient activists, professional investigators, public relations, law & accounting experts in the floodplain, threats to Free Speech & continuous difficulties obtaining public records, information is being gathered & posted in addition to MOPR Minutes, verbatim transcripts of VP Levee Cmsn, Board of Aldermen, USACE & other meetings.
Button Directory - see what's where on this site. MOPR, POBox 240274, Ballwin, MO 63024-0274.
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