TOUGH DECISIONS ARE PART OF THE JOB BUT BLOWING LEVEE IS HARDEST

摘要

Making the decision to blow almost four miles of Mississippi River levee to operate the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway was one of the most difficult decisions of Maj. Gen. Michael Walsh's 34-year career as an Army officer. But on May 2, 2011, Walsh, commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Valley Division and president-designee of the Mississippi River Commission, gave the order to detonate the first charge, blowing a hole in a Missouri levee.