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No Help for the Mississippi River

No Help for the Mississippi River

Missouri River Photo: WNAX


Low levels on the Mississippi River have led to problems with commodity movements as barge traffic slows to a crawl.
The Missouri River won’t be much help according to John Remus, Chief of the Missouri River Basin Water Management Office in Omaha…..https://on.soundcloud.com/vpcHL

Remus says the Corps has minimal options for flow control on the Mississippi River…..https://on.soundcloud.com/hkKgR

Remus says the Missouri River does, at times, provide a good portion of the flow in the Mississippi above St Louis…..https://on.soundcloud.com/EU16V

The 2022 calendar year runoff forecast for the upper Basin, updated is 19.5 Million Acre Feet, 76% of average.

Total System storage was 48.5 Million Acre Feet, which is 7.6 Million Acre Feet below the base of the flood control zone.