ST. LOUIS — Shippers who have idled towboats and lightened barge loads as the Mississippi River shrinks from drought credit the waterway's stewards for so far averting their worst fear: a potentially crippling shutdown of the artery used to move everything from corn and grain to construction materials and petroleum.
Corps praised for averting Mississippi River shutdown
Thursday, January 10, 2013 | 4:23 p.m. CST;
updated 4:41 p.m. CST, Thursday, January 10, 2013
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