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Corps: No Imminent Closure Of The Mississippi River
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - What shutdown? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is refuting claims by those representing barge owners that a complete closure of the Mississippi River is imminent. “The Corps does...
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Releases Into the Missouri River Will Be Decreased
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - The amount of water released into the lower Missouri River will be decreased this month because warmer weather has reduced ice concerns. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said...
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Mississippi Rock Blasting Puts River In Ship Shape
ST. LOUIS (AP) Crews have completed the most critical phase of removing bedrock that threatened barges along a crucial stretch of the drought-starved Mississippi River, staving off the shipping...
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Levee Repairs Progressing At Birds Point
NEW MADRID, Mo. (AP) - Nearly two years after the Army Corps of Engineers intentionally breached a southeast Missouri levee at the height of Mississippi River flooding, two of the three crevasses have...
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Corps: The Mighty Mississippi River Will Not Shutdown
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) – After ominous predictions that the Mighty Mississippi would soon be closed to barge traffic, the Corps of Engineers is now saying that work they’ve done to remove large rocks...
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Barge Damages Mississippi River Lock Gate, Idles Traffic
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (AP) – Mississippi River shipping was halted Tuesday north of St. Louis after a barge got caught up on an auxiliary lock’s gate at one of the waterway’s busiest points, causing a...
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Mississippi Barge Traffic Flowing After Tuesday’s Shutdown
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOX) - Barge traffic is again flowing through Lock and Dam 27 near Granite City this morning after an accident shut it down for most of yesterday. At about five o’clock yesterday...
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Mississippi Rock Removal Effort Moves to New Spot
ST. LOUIS (AP) - The Army Corps of Engineers has cleared tons of rock from one section of the middle Mississippi River and is now moving work slightly upstream. The drought has caused the river to be...
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Storms Boost River Levels; Some near Flood Stage
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Some drought-starved Midwestern rivers that had been near record low levels were on the verge of flooding Wednesday, after storms dumped up to 3 inches of rain on some parts of the...
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Recent Rains Ease Fears Of A Mississippi River Shutdown
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Despite dire predictions for much of November and December, recent rains have eased fears of a complete shutdown on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said...
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Middle Mississippi River Dredging Ends for Season
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Dredging operations in the middle Mississippi River are finished for the winter. The Army Corps of Engineers has been using two dredges, one from Memphis, Tenn., the other from St....
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Group Wants National Designation For Cahokia Mounds
CAHOKIA, IL (KMOX) - One conservation group says the Cahokia Mounds are as historically important as the pyramids in Egypt. So Heartland Conservancy is trying to get that site, along with any...
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Weather Wet, White And Too Much For Some Streams
St. Louis had all sorts of weather over the St. Patrick’s weekend. A span of a few hours Sunday afternoon began with sleet that turned to rain and then to snow. Temperatures, though, were above...
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Lawmakers Enyart, Davis Worried About Mississippi River’s Future
ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) — As Spring arrives accompanied by higher Mississippi River levels — the drought and its effect on the critical waterway continues to worry two Illinois Congressmen. U.S. Rep....
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Small Boat Down In Mississippi; Two Missing
There’s trouble on the Mississippi north of St. Louis. Winds were running around 30 miles per hour when a pleasure boat capsized in the river near Hartford, Illinois around 1.pm Saturday. Three people...
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Search Continues For Missing Metro-East Boaters
HARTFORD, Ill. (AP) - Two adults remain missing and one boy was rescued after a boat capsized on the Mississippi River near Hartford. Authorities say the accident happened Saturday afternoon near where...
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Mighty Mississippi Has Mo., Ill. Towns Bracing For Floods
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) - Artists, farmers, National Guardsmen even prison inmates pitched in Saturday to help a small Missouri river town hold back the bulging Mississippi River. Clarksville, Mo., was...
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Flood Warning Continues on Mississippi
ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - A “flood warning” continued Saturday afternoon for towns along the Mississippi River from Canton, Mo. to Chester, Ill. The midday river level at St. Louis was 30.92 feet — almost one...
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Clarksville Gets Visit From Volunteers, Gov. Nixon
CLARKSVILLE, Mo. (KMOX)- The rain has stopped, but the Mississippi River’s still rising at Clarksville, Missouri. Volunteer Adam Mitchell drove up from O’Fallon, Missouri on Saturday to help fight the...
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UPDATE: Barges Loose Near St. Louis
story updated 10:30am on Sunday, April 21, 2013 ST. LOUIS (AP)- More than 100 barges are back under control after breaking free on the flooded Mississippi River. The U.S. Coast Guard received a report...
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