Little relief is in sight with rain in the forecast, according to the National Weather Service.
The US Army Corps of Engineers Service Base in St. Louis on Monday. By Frances Stead Sellers and Frances Stead Sellers Senior writer covering national politics Email Bio Follow Annie Gowen Annie Gowen National correspondent Email Bio Follow May 6 at 8:15 PM ST. LOUIS — Soybean farmer Robb Ewoldt was already suffering from the floods and low commodity prices that have plagued the Midwest this year when Mother Nature delivered another punch.
The closure is the latest hit for a river system plagued by prolonged flooding that has created havoc along its banks and brought shipping of farm and energy and other products in some states to a grinding halt. Some shippers and barge captains are preparing for the eventuality that the Mississippi won’t be fully reopened until June, according to Debra A. Calhoun of the Waterways Council, a trade group.
The St. Louis closure is the most recent curtailment of the mighty 2,320-mile-long river, which begins in the cool springs of Minnesota, ends in the Gulf of Mexico and served as a transit way for more than 1.78 billion in goods last year, including soybeans, corn, crude oil and coal, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. Some frozen parts of the river in Minnesota were never opened for spring because of flooding.
Barges sit on the side of the Mississippi River just south of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis on Monday. Monday at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers service base, on a usually busy stretch of river just south of the closure, a couple of tugboats were servicing stationary barges, anchored either to the shore or to the riverbed in giant parking lots known as fleeting areas. On a typical day here, as many as three towboats pass every few minutes pushing along huge formations of barges.
“We’re not sure how we would get a boat into the water right now,” said Eric Harrison, a Coast Guard officer.
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