Per Bloomberg, a drought has created low water levels that “are causing severe impacts to navigation not seen since 1988.” Nearly all the Mississippi River basin, “from Minnesota through Louisiana, has seen below-normal rainfall since late August. The basin from St. Louis south has been largely dry for three months, according to the National Weather Service.”
Is this a failure of the Damn system to control the Mississippi's depth?
https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2021/01/15/mat-sinking-unit-armors-mississippi-river-banks/
https://www.mvk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Operations-Division/River-Operations/Mat-Sinking-unit/
Edit https://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/About/Technical-Centers/NDC-Navigation-and-Civil-Works-Decision-Support/NDC-Dredges/
https://www.usace.army.mil/Media/News/NewsSearch/Article/3188616/ongoing-rd-is-discovering-new-ways-to-put-dredged-sediment-to-use/
https://www.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Releases/News-Release-Article-View/Article/475443/communication-cooperation-and-coordination-key-to-keeping-mississippi-river-ope/
Per Bloomberg, a drought has created low water levels that “are causing severe impacts to navigation not seen since 1988.” Nearly all the Mississippi River basin, “from Minnesota through Louisiana, has seen below-normal rainfall since late August. The basin from St. Louis south has been largely dry for three months, according to the National Weather Service.”