(KLZA)-- U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts toured the Peru Levee earlier this week along with representatives of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to get a look at the progress of the $43 million project to reconstruct the levees.

In 2019 breeches in the levee allowed flooding along the Missouri River covered thousands of acres of farmland and caused damage to the City of Peru drinking water system.

Following the flooding, there was only a limited amount of funding available to repair the damage with the project at that time ineligible for public disaster funding.

A special resolution was passed to allow the “inactive” levee districts to receive disaster recovery funds.

The current repair project will fill gaps in the levee and provide top soil and seeding to resist damage from future water events.

Ricketts says the repair project is scheduled for completion in November of 2027. The goal is to make sure there is not another incident of flooding along the levee system like there was in 2019.