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
Locks and Dams
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
As the work passes the halfway point, three closed and dewatered locks and dams on the Illinois Waterway are on schedule for reopening September 30. “It’s on task and on… Read More
During the July 20 meeting of the Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) in Paducah, Ky., the board voted unanimously to recommend that the remaining cost for several major lock construction… Read More
