# Dredging Money Still In Limbo - The Waterways Journal

> Corps of Engineers districts are still clearing silt from Upper Mississippi channels after unprecedented spring sedimentation. The White House Office of Management and Budget has not released $100 million in emergency dredging funds approved by Congress in June.

- Date: 2019-09-13 · published 2019-09-13T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: logistics · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/57251-dredging-money-still-in-limbo-the-waterways-journal
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Slow dredging keeps river draft restrictions and hot spots in place during harvest shipments, which raises barge freight costs and can cap grain movement.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: bullish ▲

## Sources

- waterwaysjournal.net: https://www.waterwaysjournal.net/2019/09/13/dredging-money-still-in-limbo/

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