A barge carrying about 3,600 tons of grain took on water over the weekend just south of Kalama in the Columbia River.

Tidewater Barge Lines notified the U.S. Coast Guard around 5 p.m. Saturday.

“She was listing pretty heavily to the starboard side,” said David Morse, a maritime science technician with the Coast Guard’s Sector Columbia River, who took the routine call.

Morse said the lean, which people in shipping call a “list,” was magnified by grain shifting inside the barge once it took on water.

The company sent divers to inspect the barge’s hull and started the process of pumping water out by that night, Morse said.

It wasn’t immediately clear what caused the incident.

The issue has since been resolved, and the barge was set to be moved to the TEMCO grain export terminal to be un

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