Mar. 31—Dear Answer Man: In past winters we have always been updated on the amount of ice on Lake Pepin, but I didn't see that annual story this winter. Just wondering if the barges have been able to ...

Bill Chelmowski, a survey technician with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers St. Paul District, uses an ice auger to measure the ice at Lake Pepin in February 2021.

Lake Pepin ice, a bellwether of the spring shipping season, is significantly thinner than it was last year and almost three inches below the 17-year average. Surveyors for the U.S. Army Corps of ...

The spring shipping season is weeks away on the Upper Mississippi River, with Lake Pepin still frozen under the deepest ice in at least 17 years. The first barge of the year typically arrives in the ...

LAKE CITY, Minn. — The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has started taking this year's measurements of the thickness of Lake Pepin ice.