Barges Remain Nearly 2 Years After Flood Tossed Them In Field
May 26, 2021 By Shelley Byrne Sherry Pecord gets “the question” two or three times a week at the bar and grill she owns in Olive Branch, Ill. “Hey, are those barges still in your field?” Nearly two years after six barges broke loose from a tow, four were sucked through a hole in the broken Len Small Levee and two floated back out, the answer is yes. When the Mississippi River flowed back out of the hole in the levee in July 2019, the two remaining barges settled in the field just off Miller City Road in rural Alexander Co...
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