The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released a report on one of the most dramatic incidents of the floods of 2019, when two barges broke loose and careened down the… Read More
Flooding
The COVID-19 virus is affecting a lot of businesses. But Tom Spalj wants customers to know that his company, Big Bags USA, is up and ready for business. “I’m sitting… Read More
As a crest of high water moved downriver on the Upper Mississippi River, Locks 16 and 17 were temporarily closed. Lock 16 went out of service on April 8; according… Read More
Floodwaters on the Ohio River dropped enough so a ferry connecting Kentucky and Illinois has been able to resume service. The Cave-in-Rock Ferry reopened at 6 a.m. April 1. It… Read More
The entire Upper Mississippi River was in either moderate or minor flood states on April 2. The National Weather Service (NWS) had earlier issued a flood warning for the Mississippi… Read More
With the coronavirus outbreak curtailing world trade and the effects of the Phase I trade agreement between the U.S. and China still evolving, it wasn’t too much to hope that… Read More
“We have never in our record had these sustained high flows over the month of January,” said Dan Fasching, St. Paul District water manager for the Upper Mississippi River. Fasching’s… Read More
No one operating barges needed to be told that 2019 was a tough year for the barge industry. Historic flooding on most river systems combined with trade turmoil to bring… Read More
The two top stories of 2019 were both carry-overs from 2018. A cascading series of devastating spring floods affected every river system. Dozens of flood records were set or broken,… Read More
Now that river levels are dropping, the heavy load of silt dropped by this spring’s flooding is causing groundings up and down the length of the Mississippi River. On September… Read More
