Get on a boat on the upper Mississippi River, and you'll eventually come upon a looming concrete structure stretching across the river's main channel. It's called a lock and dam, and it's a distinct ...

BELLEVUE, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) said she wanted to make updating an aging Mississippi River lock and dam system a long-term priority. The Iowa representative toured Lock and Dam 12, ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District began refilling the newly constructed lock chamber with water at the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 in Charleroi last week. The chamber was ...

How the locks-and-dams system came to be on the Upper Mississippi River: • When the first European explorers came to the Upper Mississippi Valley maybe 350 years ago, the river had a braided channel ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh Engineering District said work on the Charleroi Lock and Dam, a project that began nearly 20 years ago and whose budget has stretched to $1.23 billion in ...

Give the Army Corps of Engineers the benefit of the doubt. The federal agency, after badly bungling and cooking the books involving a study about potential upgrades to the Mississippi River lock and ...

Some 6 million tons of commodities passed through the lock and dam along the Mississippi River in Hastings in 2023, and with navigation season at a pause, crews this winter have undertaken the ...

A leak at Thatcher Lock and Dam has drained the Ouachita River to historically low levels. But Robert Reynolds, a volunteer adviser for the Union County Water Conservation Board, as well as the ...

The Savannah Bluff Lock and Dam is owned and minimally maintained by the Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is located outside Augusta, Ga. on the Savannah River between Georgia ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, announced today that the Lock and Dam 1 open house, originally scheduled for Sept. 27, is rescheduled for Oct. 11, due to road ...

CHEBOYGAN — Planned upgrades for the Cheboygan locks and dam system near Lincoln Avenue are ongoing, with the intention of seeking bids from contractors in late spring or early summer. According to ...

The tug Theresa L. Wood heads upstream after locking through Lock and Dam #8 in May in Genoa, Wis. The vessel was moving barges from St. Louis to Winona, Minn. The locks allow the boats to gradually ...