(Bloomberg) -- The threat of flooding is subsiding across the lower Mississippi River region just two weeks after high waters devastated parts of the St. Louis area.
The Mississippi probably won’t rise as high from Arkansas to New Orleans as earlier forecasts projected, according to the National Weather Service.
“Crest heights are going to be a bit less than what we were looking at last week, which is good news,” said Jeffrey Graschel, a hydrologist at the Lower Mississippi River Forecast Center, an arm of the weather service, in Slidell, Louisiana. “The levee system is working as it’s supposed to.”
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