I am hoping to get my toon on the river for the 4th of July fireworks. I forget when small craft warnings go out; 30000 to 60000. It is running around 170000 and will do so until the middle of May. Then it will gradually decrease to normal flows (0 to 8000) if we don't have anymore monsoons. All of this actually would drain faster if the White and Mississippi rivers were not backing up into the mouth of the Arkansas and the navigation canal. The corps not only has the Arkansas valley to be concerned with; their woes are all the way from St Louis to New Orleans. All of the rain we had went right up the Ohio valley.
You may have noticed some barge traffic in the last couple of days. The liner service has a few boats that can run against this current with half tows although they consider it safe at 130000. We got our first barges here in 6 weeks this last weekend. We still have barges stranded in our fleet that we loaded in Feb.
I wouldn't venture out into the river just yet. I think it will be a couple of months.
DP