(KAIR)--A public meeting, focused on what's called a spin-off study affecting Doniphan County, Kansas and Holt County, Missouri, will be held Monday evening.

A release from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers explains that the spin-off study is part of the larger Lower Missouri River Basin Flood Risk and Resiliency Study, also known as the system plan, which was ordered after the region experienced three devastating floods in 1993, 2011 and 2019.

The meeting, being held at the Toad Hollar Bar and Grill, located at 1710 Nebraska Street, in Mound City, Missouri, will begin with a presentation at 5:00 that will be repeated that evening at 6:15, with the presentation to introduce the project boundaries and purposes. An open house with informational stations will be open between and after the presentations.

The doors will open at 4:45 Monday afternoon, with the meeting to conclude that evening at 7:30.

According to the release, the 2019 flood caused billions of dollars in damages to agriculture and infrastructure in communities in the region. Repair costs to levee infrastructure in the Lower Missouri River Basin in 2019 added up to approximately $1.2 billion. During the 2019 flood, the states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska formed a four-state coalition called the Flood Recovery Advisory Working Group. The goal was to develop actions in the aftermath of the 2019 flood to reduce system risk and recurring damages, improve system resiliency for the future and improve interagency collaboration.

The overall system plan study largely is a means to developing those beneficial actions, with the spin-off studies seeking to find more specific improvements in a specific shorter reach of the Lower Missouri River Basin.