The ongoing drought is having a very significant impact on water levels along the Mississippi River. The gage height reported by the Memphis, TN sensor hit a record low value on Monday at -10.71 feet, which bested the previous record low stage set in 1988. The IEM has archives of these river gage reports, but only back to late 2010. The featured chart presents the gage height reports for the site with the red line representing the value at 9 PM Monday. You can see the current value dipping below the low flows during the drought of 2012. A major impact is reduced barge traffic, which is important for moving agricultural crops from Iowa to elsewhere.

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