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Associated Press: A year after the Mississippi River swelled to near-historic proportions and flooded farms and homes from Illinois to Louisiana, the level along the waterway's southern half is so low that cargo barges have run aground and their operators have been forced to lighten their loads.
Wide, sandy strips of shoreline usually invisible even in the low season are now exposed, shrinking the river's width and affecting the way tow captains navigate.
Such is life along the nation's main inland waterway,......
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A year after near-record floods, shippers face a low Mississippi River amid dry conditions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on July 16th, 2012
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