Eureka is getting a floodwall to protect Old Town.
The Eureka Board of Aldermen voted unanimously on Dec. 17 to approve a $7.3 million contract with Keeley Construction Group Inc. of St. Louis to construct an earthen wall along Flat Creek from west of Bald Hill Road to Hwy. 109 suitable for withstanding a 500-year flood event.
The project includes a new detention basin and stormwater pump station. A lagoon berm will be elevated by two feet at the Missouri American Water wastewater treatment plant on Labarque Way Road…