Tovah Hagens of St. Louis County fishes along a newly exposed bank of the Mississippi River near North Riverfront Park in St. Louis on Monday, July 16th, 2012. Hagens says he fishes there often and has noticed a dramatic drop in the river level from just a few weeks ago. A year after the Mississippi River swelled to near historic proportions and flooded farms and homes from Illinois to Louisiana, the level along the waterway’s southern 1/2 is so low that cargo barges have run aground and their operators have been forced to lighten their loads. |
