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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2008 - 17:46:49 EDT
Gary - Google 'Corps of Engineers Rock Island'. You will find a link to their homepage which has their phone number ((800) 799-8302), etc. Call them up and have a talk. This the HQ for the Upper Mississippi River COE (at my home town). I've also included the link below.
Also suggest that you get a copy of their COE Mississippi River Chart. This shows (among other things) the channel and the locations of those all important wing dams?THAT YOU DO NOT WANT TO HIT. In many places, the wing dams run almost up to the channel. It is available in hard copy from them and is also online. Note it does not include depths. But . . . the channel is maintained by the COE to a minimum depth of 9 ft. Go outside the channel at your own risk.
One more thing in case you don't know: Whenever?the COE provides river channel depth, it will be the depth above the 9 ft level. So if they say the depth is 5 ft at Lock and Dam 15, then it is really 14 ft there in the channel. My hometown newspaper contains this info and there would always be someone who would think the river was only?4 ft deep (for instance)?because that's what was shown as the river depth there on that particular day.
Tim Behan
http://www.mvr.usace.army.mil/
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Corn and Gail Eades <>
To:
Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 7:42 am
Subject: T&T: Mississippi current speed
I am planning for a possible yacht delivery later in the spring from Green
Turtle Bay on the Cumberland River, down the Cumberland and Ohio to the
Mississippi and then 222 miles upstream to the junction of the Illinois. I
am unable to find a website with the speed of the River current. I can find
waiting time at locks, vessel locations and cubic feed/second, but not
current in mph or knots. Anyone know of such a site?
Also, is the Quimby's cruising guide still the "only game in town" for those
waters?
Gary Corn
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