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Science, Health and Technology
8:28 am
Mon December 17, 2012

Army Corps adding water to Mississippi River to aid barge traffic

Credit Abbie Fentress Swanson/Harvest Public Media

Amid strong concerns about the declining level of the already low Mississippi River, the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing water from an Illinois lake to add to the flow of the Mississippi.

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