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“We have some huge rainfall deficits that have built up, not only over the last year but the last few years,” said the director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Midwest Climate Hub.
Since June, the Army Corps of Engineers has spent $38 million maintaining the Mississippi River channel, mostly through dredging the equivalent of 5,000 Olympic-sized pools of sediment.
After the Mississippi River hit another new low, NASA released images of the river in 2021 and how it looked this past September, showing the change in the Mighty Mississippi.
The National Weather Service at Memphis expects the river to approach, or maybe surpass, last year’s record low by the end of the month.
Pumping water from the Mississippi River to drought-stricken western states is an option, but an expensive one.
This fall’s drought could be a harbinger of challenges ahead for the Mississippi River shipping industry.
The Mississippi River level is at a record-breaking low, and The Daily Memphian photographer Mark Weber captured images of the historic occasion.
Drought is affecting the region even as climate change-induced increases in rainfall amount and intensity have been documented.
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