11.   Development of Mercosur is expected to boost non-agriculture-related barge traffic.

12.   Farmers in the region also could see their finances collapse, he said, if barge traffic disappears and the rail rates for shipping grain consequently skyrocket.

13.   Further, they said, the spring releases would cut the amount of water available to release in the summer, inhibiting barge traffic.

14.   However, some hydropower production and commercial barge traffic would have to be curtailed.

15.   However, the locks remain unused for days on end as barge traffic has declined over the years.

16.   In addition to flooding, members of the Missouri delegation say the change in flow could hurt barge traffic.

17.   In the meantime, barge traffic never approached corps projections, and it has been declining for decades.

18.   It does not belong to barge traffic.

19.   Missourians, however, worry that it would impede barge traffic downriver in the summer.

20.   No new projects would be funded and dredging money would be steered away from waterways with little barge traffic, under the White House blueprint.