The Jefferson County Clerk’s Office will not have a polling location open at Brookdale Farms on Twin River Road for the election on Tuesday, April 8, after all.
That polling place has been eliminated because road closures from flooding would make it difficult to access the Brookdale Farms location.
Instead residents who would have voted there may go to a polling place at Eureka Fire Protection District Station 1, at 4849 Hwy. 109 in Eureka, or to the County Clerk’s Office, 729 Maple St., in Hillsboro.
The Eureka Fire Station 1 polling place will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday for voting.
The County Clerk’s Office, will be open until 5 p.m. today, April 7, for early voting, and from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tuesday.
Grant Bissell, spokesperson for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, said signs will be put up around Brookdale Farms, directing voters to the new polling locations. He said people are encouraged to vote early, if possible.
For more information about voting, call the County Clerk’s Office at 636-797-5486.
The election panel for the eastern district of the Missouri Court of Appeals granted the County Clerk’s Office’s request for a change in polling place due to flooding on April 4.
According to the appeal, the Meramec River is expected to be in a major flood stage on election day, preventing voters from accessing their usual polling place.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that the Meramec River near Eureka will crest in the major flood stage of 32.50 feet by 7 a.m. on Tuesday.
The Big River at Byrnesville already reached its crest in the moderate flood stage at 1:30 a.m. today, at 23.93 feet.
Eureka Fire reports that Twin River Road is currently closed due to flooding on the road.
Cedar Hill Fire Protection District Chief Mick Fischer said at 9:30 a.m. that Cedar Hill Road near the Big River, Hwy. BB at Homestead Acres, South Byrnesville Road, and Dutch Creek Road were all closed due to flooding.
“I think we are fortunate; we got a lot less rain than what they were calling for,” Fischer said. “We’re just waiting for the rivers to go down so crews can get out there, clear the debris off (the roads) and get everything opened back up.”