A southeast Missouri county has been told it won’t be getting any money for damage done by the federal agency that blew up the Birds Point levee last year.

The Southeast Missourian reports Mississippi County’s clerk gave county commissioners a letter with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision on Thursday.

A corps spokesman says the letter “constitutes the final administrative action” on the county’s $75 million claim for flood damage

The county had argued that the corps’ activation of the floodway was negligent. Commissioners say they weren’t surprised by the decision, but still hope to receive money from the corps to pay for damage to county roads by trucks hauling materials to rebuild the levee.

The levee was intentionally blown up to prevent flooding Cairo, the town across the river.

- Bob Hamilton, KMOX News