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New York Times: This ship is making sure that the Big River, shrinking under one of the worst droughts in modern history, stays deep enough. The Potter is scooping this stretch of the Mississippi River’s navigation channel just south of St. Louis, the ship’s 32-foot-wide head sucking up about 60,000 cubic yards of sediment each day and depositing it via a long discharge pipe a thousand feet to the side in a violent, muddy plume that smells like muck and summer. The Army Corps of Engineers has more than a dozen......
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In Midst of a Drought, Trying to Keep Cargo Moving on the Mississippi
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 20th, 2012
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