Over the last 30 days, the communities along Bayou Sorrel and the Port Allen Alternate Route of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (GIWW) have seen an astounding amount of rainfall on… Read More
Flooding
Tyler Kelley’s book Holding Back the River, to be officially published May 4, belongs in the fine tradition of nonfiction works like Rising Tide, John Barry’s award-winning account of the… Read More
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
Heavy rains over the weekend of May 16–17 led to high water and flooding on the Illinois River and parts of the Upper Mississippi River. The Illinois River was under… Read More
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
