# Taming the mighty Mississippi: Troubles run deep in changing national waterway | Biloxi Sun Herald

> A Washington Post feature examines the aging Mississippi River infrastructure of locks, dams, levees and bridges, which is largely decrepit. It notes President Trump's $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan could bring billions for repairs, but Congress disagrees on which projects to fund and how to pay for them.

- Date: 2018-03-17 · published 2018-03-17T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/65890-taming-the-mighty-mississippi-troubles-run-deep-in-changing-national-waterway
- Commodities: [Barge Freight (St. Louis)](https://feedsoft.ai/c/BARGE.md)

## Why it matters

Long-term infrastructure risk to the Mississippi barge system raises the prospect of future service disruptions, but no funded change in capacity or costs has yet occurred.

## Read by commodity

- BARGE: neutral

## Sources

- sunherald.com: https://www.sunherald.com/news/state/mississippi/article205612259.html

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