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Mississippi River mayors lobby for more government funding for flooding, mitigation
Mayors of cities and towns along the Mississippi River are lobbying Congress for help to decrease flood risks.
Low flood risk on the Mississippi River this spring, unless big rainstorms sweep in
Snowmelt, the single biggest predictor of the river's spring flood risk, won't play a big role this year as there wasn't much snow to begin with across the river basin.
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Proposed legislation aims to protect Mississippi River fisheries
commercial and subsistence fishing in the Mississippi River, one study valued it as a billion dollar industry in the basin.
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Examining the economic impacts of aquatic dead zones
"Nitrogen from agriculture gets into the downstream ... upstream water quality in watersheds like the Mississippi River Basin, as nitrogen runoff also damages local streams. Elbakidze's model ...
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Upper Missouri River Basin runoff stays below average in February
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says February runoff in the upper Missouri River Basin was 91% of average. The 2025 calendar year runoff forecast above Sioux City is 86% of average. The runoff ...
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St. Cloud Details Efforts to Reduce Runoff Into the Mississippi River
(KNSI) – The city of St. Cloud says it is over halfway to its goal of reducing sediment runoff into the Mississippi River by 70% at the end of this decade.