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[quote user="bobwilcox"][quote user="futuremodal"] Higher water levels favor barging, but also favor electricity generation...   Both take the same amount of water to raise and lower the locks...  [/quote]Their are no hyro-electirc plants between St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans and the Gulf. [/quote]Yeah, that was pointed out to me.  I was making a general statement on barging and dams but made the mistake of including that generalization into the debate over the Mississippi dams.Too bad, since there is great hydro potential for modern low-head hydropower projects at these dams.[quote]There are no locks on the lower Miss. River between Cairo, IL and the Gulf. [/quote]Again, yes I know.  [quote]There are lots of tax dollars spent for dredging. [/quote]There are lots of tax dollars spent for railroads, including Amtrak and transit.  I hate to have to explain this a million times, but the cost of dredging projects as per USACE project sheets is a far cry from the actual physical cost of dredging.  All things being equal, it's a lot cheaper to maintain a navigation channel that it is to maintain a railroad ROW.
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