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Mississippi River Reopened to Vessels After Oil Removed
2013-02-04 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Coast Guard has reopened the Mississippi River to vessel traffic in both directions after finishing the cleanup of thousands of gallons of oil from a leaking barge. Officials said in a news release Saturday that the safety zone has been reduced to one mile on either side of the two barges that collided with a railroad bridge near Vicksburg last Sunday, causing a leak from one barge. Vessels are not permitted to pass or overtake other vessels within the zone. The news release said the light...
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Drought causes ripple effect along mighty Mississippi River
2013-02-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: The persistent drought is raising questions about how the Mississippi River is managed - both upstream and down. While cargo traffic upriver has gotten lots of attention, the drought is creating a different set of problems downriver at the mouth of the Mississippi, where saltwater has encroached. An old-fashioned staff river gauge behind the New Orleans district office of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows the Mississippi is running just shy of 6 feet above sea level at the river bend....
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River Transport Quandary Remains on Middle Mississippi River
2013-02-01 22:36:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
Experts seek long-term solution to low river levels. Its 75% true we dodged a major bullet and were able to carry commodities through the winter on the Mississippi, says Ann McCulloch, vice president of public affairs for the American Waterways Operators (AWO). But we are still very concerned. That was a major concern from November when the Corps of Engineers (USACE) reduced Missouri River flow into the Mississippi. read more
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Mississippi River barge backup shrinks, oil cleanup continues
2013-02-01 22:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Mississippi River barge traffic remained congested on Friday near Vicksburg, Mississippi, where a barge accident and oil spill shuttered the major shipping artery on Sunday, but the backlog of boats was slowly declining. The U.S. Coast Guard reopened the river on Wednesday to one-way traffic through a 16-mile safety zone from river mile marker 425 to 441, where the backlog of barges had ballooned to more than 1,000. The backup thinned to 519 barges by midday Friday, including 11 northbound...
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Winter Shipping, Dredging on the Mississippi River
2013-02-01 21:58:00| Corn & Soybean Digest
With less water coming in from the Missouri, shipping conditions on the middle Mississippi, the key 180 miles from the Missouri to the confluence with the Ohio, were nip-and-tuck all winter as the Corps cobbled together water releases from Illinois reservoirs with day-and-night work to keep the channel open. read more
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