Rising river levels close locks, dams

摘要

A SERIES of late-June thunderstorms that hit the northern Corn Belt continued to cause issues last week after swelling rivers, particularly the Upper Mississippi River, caused the closure of several locks and dams."Excessive rainfall, in some cases nearly a foot over the past month, has pushed the Upper Mississippi River past flood stage from Minnesota and Wisconsin to Iowa, Illinois and northern Missouri," said Alex Sosnowski, expert senior meteorologist for Accu Weather.com.