Eastern end of Katy Trail to be completed--at last!

 

A project that has been nearly two decades in the making will be completed this summer.

The easternmost 11 miles of the Katy Trail, from the current termination at St Charles to Machens, will be completed and open for use by the end of 2010, according to this story in the St Louis Post-Dispatch:

The project will complete the 11-mile segment connecting St. Charles and the Machens area to the northeast, between the Missouri and the Mississippi rivers. . . . 

For years, state officials have wanted to take the trail to Machens but floods in 1993 and 1995 left two large areas of standing water on the trail.  The work involves putting part of the trail atop an existing levee.

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