Water levels back to normal on rivers
PEORIA — Barge traffic is getting back to normal on the lower Mississippi River for what's typically a slower time of the year.'The water levels ar...
PEORIA — Barge traffic is getting back to normal on the lower Mississippi River for what's typically a slower time of the year.'The water levels are back up to normal south of Cairo versus where it was in September and October,' said Tom Torretti, of Consolidated Grain & Barge Co. 'The low water issue last year was the worst we'd seen since 1988.' The low water issues — which Toretti said made parts of the mighty river temporarily look like a creek — snarled barge traffic and caused freight rates to skyrocket in 2022.