Tows are waiting an average of 13 to 15 hours to begin locking through Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River, more than two years after remnants of a hurricane sank… Read More
Locks and Dams
The 57th annual Tennessee River Valley Association and Tennessee-Cumberland Waterways Council meeting October 9-10 in Franklin, Tenn., included an update on projects along the Tennessee and Cumberland rivers as well… Read More
Three dewatered locks on the Illinois Waterway should all reopen on time October 1, but one may experience intermittent delays afterward. During a 120-day closure, which began June 1, the… Read More
The auxiliary chamber at Meldahl Locks and Dam, Ohio River Mile 436.2, is expected to remain closed into next year to allow repairs to miter gates. Domenico Chianesi, navigation operations… Read More
The Pittsburgh Engineer District announced September 5 that it has awarded a nearly $30 million contract to the Joseph B. Fay Company of Pittsburgh to remove the Monongahela River Locks… Read More
Lashed together with steel cables, bundles of trees dangled from a helicopter over the upper Ohio River, ready to become fish habitats. Twenty-nine tree bundles, removed in March from the… Read More
Construction of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project could be delayed if a Project Partnership Agreement (PPA) isn’t signed between the Corps of Engineers and the state of Illinois by September… Read More
The first shovels of dirt were turned ceremonially on August 11 at Montgomery Locks and Dam to mark the beginning of construction for phase one of the Upper Ohio Navigation… Read More
The St. Louis Engineer District temporarily closed the 1,200-foot main chamber at Melvin Price Locks and Dam in Alton, Ill., August 1 to all commercial and recreational traffic after a… Read More
State legislatures in Michigan and Illinois have now both passed funding measures that will help fund construction of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project, designed to keep invasive carp from spreading… Read More
