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Nonstop dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year, but moving mountains of sand creates its own problems

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge ...
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This 'Dune' isn't fiction. It's the longest conveyer belt in the US and moving sand in Texas

KERMIT, Texas – It's longer than the width of Rhode Island, snakes across the oil fields of the southwest U.S. and crawls at 10 mph – too slow for a truck and too long for a train. Atlas Energy ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Nonstop dredging kept the Mississippi River open this year, but moving mountains of sand creates its own problems

Historic low flows turned the Mississippi River into a construction area in 2023, as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredged huge quantities of sand to keep the channel open for barge traffic.