Hydrogeologist questions reservoir releases and blasting rock to deepen the Mississippi for barge traffic
Monday, January 28, 2013 - 09:00
in Earth & Climate
(Phys.org)—The Jan. 17 issue of The New York Times celebrated "the remarkable feat of engineering" that kept the Mississippi River open to barge traffic despite extreme drought in the Midwest. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the article said, had dredged, blasted and scraped away rock obstructions along the riverbed, lowering the bottom of the channel at Thebes, Ill., by two feet.