Low Mississippi River levels have state officials, including Missouri Governor Mike Parson, on alert.
“If you start shutting down the Missouri or Mississippi Rivers, it’s a huge impact.”
Davor Karic with the Army Corps of Engineers in St. Louis says river levels are expected to gradually decline between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois in the next month.
“Currently at St. Louis, we’re at -1.0. Our 4-week outlook has the changes at -1.5 for the first week, the second week at -2.5, the third week at -3.0 and week four outlook at -3.3.”
He says river levels typically hit lows in December.
