Barge traffic halted near Mississippi River lock

 
By JIM SUHR | Published: September 20, 2012   

Crews scrambled to make repairs Wednesday near the busiest Mississippi River lock shut down because of damage blamed partly on the summer drought, snarling hundreds of barges and tugboats in a backlog that was growing worse by the hour.

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Workers closed Lock 27 just north of St. Louis last Saturday after discovering that a protection cell — a vertical, rock-filled steel cylinder against which barges rub to help align them for...
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