Mississippi River at Memphis on the rise again
Survey technician Donnie Armstrong with the Memphis District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts a daily river patrol on Feb, 27, 2019. The river at Memphis crested in March at 41.3 feet on the gauge, the fourth highest level ever recorded at Memphis, and is expected to go just above flood stage of 34 feet by Sunday, May 12. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian file)
Look for the river at Memphis to go just above flood stage of 34 feet this weekend.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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