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Collaboration Takes Center Stage As Funding Pours In

September 9, 2022

The Corps of Engineers’ lock-closure schedules through 2024 were the topic when barge industry stakeholders and Corps officials from multiple districts met September 7 at the St. Louis District’s Service… Read More

Lock Maintenance Workshop Celebrates 40 Years Of Collaboration Lock Maintenance Workshop participants toured the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Ill., during the 2020 workshop, the last to be held in-person because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Great Lakes and Ohio River Engineer Division)

Lock Maintenance Workshop participants toured the Corps’ Engineer Research and Development Center’s Construction Engineering Research Laboratory in Champaign, Ill., during the 2020 workshop, the last to be held in-person because of the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo courtesy of Great Lakes and Ohio River Engineer Division)

Lock Maintenance Workshop Celebrates 40 Years Of Collaboration

April 1, 2022

Now in its 40th year, the Lock Maintenance Workshop has grown from a gathering of a dozen people to more than 150, including international participants. The workshop, hosted annually by… Read More

The Corps’ Newest Dam Dog Arrives At Cannelton Locks Breeze, a blue merle, smooth-coated border collie, is trained to deter birds at Cannelton Locks and Dam in Indiana. The vultures eat away at the dam’s expansion joints. (Photo by Abby Korfhage, Louisville Engineer District.)

Breeze, a blue merle, smooth-coated border collie, is trained to deter birds at Cannelton Locks and Dam in Indiana. The vultures eat away at the dam’s expansion joints. (Photo by Abby Korfhage, Louisville Engineer District.)

The Corps’ Newest Dam Dog Arrives At Cannelton Locks

October 19, 2018

For the second time ever, the Corps of Engineers has employed a well-trained dog to deter nuisance birds from an inland lock and dam system. Breeze, a blue merle, smooth-coated… Read More