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The article discusses the efforts of St. Johns Levee and Drainage District on the Mississippi River to mitigate internal flooding. The mitigation planning in the Bootheel of Missouri attempted to reduce the number of days communities are isolated by floodwaters, as well as to limit crop and non-crop losses and reduce damage through the adoption of strategies that reconnect the hydrology of the floodplain to the river. The changes in land use and drainage modifications over time are tackled.

The article focuses on the installation of slurry trenches and relief wells to strengthen Ohio and Mississippi river levee systems. Topics discussed include historical geological features of the Cache River valley area, consequences of cache river levee failure in Ohio and Mississippi, restoration of cache river levees, impact of flooding on farmland located North of Cairo area, and impact of 2011 flooding on unleveed agricultural lands.

The article focuses on drought conditions in the Mississippi River Channel at Thebes, Illinois as a result of slow soaking rain systems and evening thunder-storms. Topics discussed include a new challenge for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) to control the Mississippi River, lack of rain throughout 2012 that severe summertime seasonal drought over the central Great Plains and USACE's successful effort to dredge other parts of the Mississippi River to keep the shipping channel open.