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Low Water on the Mississippi Causes Barge Backup

The drought of 2012 reduced traffic to one towboat at a time; groundings closed parts of the river for hours to days.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Jesse Allen and Robert Simmon, using EO-1 ALI data from the NASA EO-1 team. Caption by Mike Carlowicz, with image interpretation from Rick Robertson, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Published August 23, 2012
Data acquired August 20, 2012

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