A contractor for the Pittsburgh Engineer District blasted away the first portion of the Monongahela Dam 3 near Elizabeth, Pa., about 7 p.m. on July 10. The explosive demolition, which… Read More
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The Pittsburgh Engineer District is moving up creation of a 100-foot navigable channel through the former dam on the Lower Monongahela River at Elizabeth, Pa. While the channel through the… Read More
Campbell Transportation Company has retrieved the final two barges that had lodged against Emsworth Locks and Dam following a 26-barge breakaway in the Pittsburgh area. One barge remains pinned against… Read More
Beginning the week of July 8, the Pittsburgh Engineer District plans to demolish the more than 100-year-old Monongahela Locks and Dam 3 at Elizabeth, Pa. The facility, which has been… Read More
Within 48 hours April 3–5, the most extensive flood in the Pittsburgh area since 2005 came and went. Alan Nogy, the Pittsburgh Engineer District’s operations project manager for locks and… Read More
Operational testing is taking place on the new, expanded riverside lock chamber at Lock 4 on the Monongahela River in Charleroi, Pa., with the chamber expected to be complete this… Read More
The Pittsburgh Engineer District is piling rocks in the Monongahela River to create fish reefs. Once the project is finished, the Pittsburgh District will have installed 73 reefs, each extending… Read More
The Pittsburgh Engineer District will update the public on the Lower Monongahela Project on December 12 as the project nears its final phase. The public meeting, to be held at… 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
