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Name:	PC Al -	Reply
Subject:	More Great News
Date:	6/19/2007 9:46:15 PM

Things could get worse.

URL: http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AL_ALABAMA_DROUGHT_ALOL-?SITE=WVTMTV&SECTION=US

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	A few years back...
Date:	6/19/2007 10:21:51 PM

the Mississippi River was closed to barge traffic because of a drought. New Orleans water intakes were picking up salt water because the Gulf had backed up the river for over 100 miles. And Selma thinks they have problems with a wood chip plant and a barge and want the Feds to dredge--but then maybe that's the mentality of Selma.

Name:	CAT BOAT -	Reply
Subject:	A few years back...
Date:	6/20/2007 8:50:34 AM

I would like to read about that. OSMS, see if you can find an article on it. Things must have been bad for the salt water to back that far up and inland. Interesting. I am starting to wonder just how low all our waterways are going to go!

Name:	MotorMan -	Reply
Subject:	see link in first post
Date:	6/20/2007 9:26:48 AM

THE LINK ONLY WORKS IN THE FIRST POST. It is invisible in the "view all" version at least in my version.

Name:	PC Al -	Reply
Subject:	see link in first post
Date:	6/20/2007 11:09:28 AM

Sorry. Here it is to cut and paste:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AL_ALABAMA_DROUGHT_ALOL-?SITE=WVTMTV&SECTION=US

There is also a similar article in today's B'ham News. I am sure you can access it on Al.com if you don't have the paper.

Name:	Osms -	Reply
Subject:	Cat...
Date:	6/20/2007 11:23:54 PM

I don't remember what year this happened, but the MS River became so shallow that barge traffic was stopped around Vicksburg I believe. That was the first time that the value of the Tenn-Tom showed itself because some barge traffic was diverted to the Tenn-Tom, went down to Mobile to meet ships.

Salt water has a higher specitic gravity than fresh water so it sank beneath the fresh river water and backed up the river when the MS River flow slowed to the point it couldn't hold back the tidal pressures of the Gulf. The salt water came dangerously close to entering the NO water intake pipes at the bottom of the river. This happened during the 1990s I believe.

Name:	CAT BOAT -	Reply
Subject:	Cat...
Date:	6/21/2007 8:55:15 AM

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

Name:	raysea -	Reply
Subject:	More Great News
Date:	6/22/2007 9:58:52 AM

How can Politicians be so incredibly uninformed? There are no lakes in neighboring states that can feed water into the Alabama-Warrior-Coosa-Tallapoosa system. (Part of Weiss is in Georgia, but APCo controls the dam.) I assume some water can be fed into the Tombigbee from Pickwick, but that is not going to help Selma or Montgomery.

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