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Robert Hirschfeld @rfhirschfeld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Streamgages that have been collecting data since the 40s and 50s are being shut down in Illinois. If we're having trouble finding funding to monitor pollution in our waterways, here's my suggestion: The industry responsible for that pollution should pay for it.

news-gazette.com

My Turn | Illinois needs more water monitoring, not less

"Time is of the essence. The streamgages will be turned off Thursday, but we should have several more weeks before they will be removed entirely. Once the gauges are pulled

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...

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Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO

YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Better than my view in Carbondale.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Worth a read if you are intrested in alternatives to current large river floodplain agriculture in the central and southern Mississippi River Valley. Though farms like this will still need the federally subsidized levee system but perhaps less crop insurance - www.propublica.org/article/illi...

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The Floods Kept Coming. He Needed to Grow a Crop That Would Thrive in Water — or to Quit.

One Illinois man’s decadeslong fight to convert his fields into rice paddies demonstrates how it’s possible to bring diversity to the Corn Belt, but improbable so long as federal farm policy remains f...

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Old River Control Structure from 10,000ft. Low Sill Structure bottom right and Auxiliary Structure top right.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Morning on Mississippi River in Baton Rouge.

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Cuts to the Army Corps levee inspection budget in New Orleans, a place that famously doesn't have to worry about levees. Also struck by slower reduction in inspection quality, and its parallels to descriptions of PG&E line inspections in California Burning. Maintenance is a thankless task.

Corps workers also said levee inspections have become less rigorous in recent years. The annual inspections used to look more like those that are now conducted every five years. They involved multiple engineers and a lengthy report, according to Jennifer Stephens, the Corps’ levee safety program manager.

Now, the inspections involve “two people, three at most, with basically a two-page report, and you’re done,” Stephens said.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Finally made the pilgrimage to the Old River “Control” Complex and the Morganza Spillway.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

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Jon Remo @potamologist.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Southern most point in Illinois. Confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers

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