Governor Wants To Better Prepare For Floods

A new state office to deal with flooding — that’s what Governor Parson is proposing. He wants to spend just over 10-million dollars to create an agency that would help the state prepare for floods and drought.

It would be called the Missouri Hydrology Information Center. State officials say it is an idea that came up after those floods in 2019 in the Missouri and Mississippi river basins. Those floods resulted in about about $20 billion damage.