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Tag: Locks and dams

Rollin’ on the [federally flood-controlled] river

July 20, 2012 Gloria Shur Bilchik Government, Infrastructure, Missouri region Leave a comment

If you want to travel by boat, or ship grain by barge on the Mississippi River, you’re going to encounter locks and dams. On

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