KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has
awarded an $888,000 contract to repair a northwestern Missouri
levee damaged during last year's flooding.

     The Union Township Levee along the Missouri River in Holt County
had four breaches and crown erosion. The Corps says Ideker Inc., of
St. Joseph, has won the contract to repair the levee.

     Northwestern Missouri suffered extensive spring and summer
flooding along the river after releases from upstream reservoirs.
To date, the Corps' Kansas City office has awarded six contracts to
repair seven levees along the Missouri.