http://y101radio.com Y101 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:11:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://y101radio.com/the-illinois-river-to-the-rescue/ http://y101radio.com/the-illinois-river-to-the-rescue/#comments Thu, 27 Dec 2012 11:20:24 +0000 Jeffrey Dorsey http://y101radio.com/?p=84796 Well, it's been a few weeks since I mentioned the low levels of the Mississippi River being a problem for shipping especially south of the St. Louis area.  It's so bad that the Army Corps of Engineers is overseeing rock blasting in the channel of the river south of the Gateway City.

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