Missouri

Top Three Infrastructure Concerns:

  • Roads
  • Wastewater
  • Bridges

Key Infrastructure Facts

 

  • 33% of Missouri’s bridges are structurally deficient or functionally obsolete.
  • There are 462 high hazard dams in Missouri. A high hazard dam is defined as a dam whose failure would cause a loss of life and significant property damage.
  • 38 of Missouri’s 664 dams are in need of rehabilitation to meet applicable state dam safety standards.
  • 95% of high hazard dams in Missouri have no emergency action plan (EAP). An EAP is a predetermined plan of action to be taken including roles, responsibilities and procedures for surveillance, notification and evacuation to reduce the potential for loss of life and property damage in an area affected by a failure or mis-operation of a dam.
  • Missouri’s drinking water infrastructure needs an investment of $5.96 billion over the next 20 years.
  • Missouri ranked 20th in the quantity of hazardous waste produced and 18th in the total number of hazardous waste producers.
  • Missouri’s ports handled 28 million tons of waterborne traffic in 2005, ranking it 27th in the nation.
  • Missouri reported an unmet need of $6.8 million for its state public outdoor recreation facilities and parkland acquisition.
  • 34% of Missouri’s major roads are in poor or mediocre condition.
  • 44% of Missouri’s major urban highways are congested.
  • Vehicle travel on Missouri’s highways increased by 36 percent from 1990 to 2007.
  • Missouri has $4.84 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs.

Sources

 

*Survey of the state’s ASCE members conducted in September 2008
 
Deficient Bridge Report, Federal Highway Administration, 2008.
National Inventory of Dams, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 2008.
Drinking Water Needs Survey and Assessment, Environmental Protection Agency, 2003.
National Biennial RCRA Hazardous Waste Report, Environmental Protection Agency, 2007.
The U.S. Waterway System – Transportation Facts, Navigation Data Center, U.S Army Corps of Engineers, February 2007.
2007 Annual Report, Land and Water Conservation Fund State Assistance Program, National Park Service.
TRIP Fact Sheet, March 2009.
Clean Water Needs Survey, Environmental Protection Agency, 2004.

Other resources:
St. Louis Report Card
 

Comments

How useful is a '03 report with info from the late 90's?

Submitted by Tanalyn Dollar (not verified) on April 5, 2010 - 12:22.

From watching the History channel's report on our country's infrastructure (2010), I learned about the ASCE report card. I wanted to drill into specifics at the local level and followed the link to the St. Louis pdf. Authored by the MO ASCE in 2003, most of the information references data gathered in the late 1990's. How useful is that to the citizens? If I was a member of the MO ASCE, I would be embarrassed my professional collegues hadn't submit current and specific information with which to arm citizens to battle for infrastructure improvements.