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Midwest Drought and Barge Traffic

In the last few days there have been a number of articles like this one in the Peoria Journal Star about the slowdown of barge traffic along the Mississippi River due to the Midwest drought. As the...

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Why the Low Water Levels on the Mississippi River

There has been much concern with the low river stages on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and Cairo, IL, and what that means for barge traffic, for example here and here. How bad is it? The...

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Drought and Barge Traffic on the Mississippi River

On Saturday, the US Corps of Engineers began releasing water from Lake Carlyle (east of St. Louis), which flows down the Kaskaskia River into the Mississippi River near Thebes. They kept the water...

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