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Mississippi slowly opens to barge traffic |
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Wednesday, 02 July 2008 10:57 |
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expects to open the Mississippi River to barge traffic as far south as Keokuk, Iowa, by this weekend, but that will not clear the logjam of barges stranded by floodwaters.
Lock & Dam 16 at Muscatine, Iowa, should open today, with Locks & Dams 17, 18 and 19, which are at Keokuk, scheduled to reopen by Saturday. |
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