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Ross William Hamilton/The OregonianStructural members of a lock gate at John Day Dam, seen Friday afternoon, are bent by the nose end of an empty grain barge pushed by Tidewater Barge Lines of ...
Seven people, including a child, are safe after a harrowing incident on the Mississippi River when their boat went through a ...
Sheriffs Brian Swedberg and Roy Torgerson have shared photos and additional details on the Genoa Lock and Dam incident in ...
After almost nine months of closure for repairs, Wilson Lock on the Tennessee River reopened. days ahead of schedule.The lock ...
The Old River Lock in Lettsworth, LA, which is maintained and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, re-opened to navigation Nov. 6, 2022. The lock was dewatered and ...
When the Mississippi River lock and dam system was built during the Depression, spending on Army Corps-related civil works facilities was $70 per capita. Now it's $18 per American, noted Baumgard.
About $2 billion in commercial cargo travels the entire system annually, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and it’s the No. 1 export gate in the U.S. for wheat and barley and the No ...
A single lock gate weighs 268,000 pounds. So what happens when they need a facelift? The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which cares for the structures, has to go to great lengths to get a good look ...
For the second time in four months a 240-ton leaf of a main Ohio River miter-gate lock has failed, severely restricting shipping and signaling, once again, that it can be perilous to depend on ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, awarded a $22.5 million contract to Abhe & Svoboda, Inc., of Jordan, Minnesota, on Sept. 18, for gate maintenance on Lock and Dam 5 located ...
Traffic on the Mississippi River at Melvin Price Lock and Dam slowed considerably this week when the main lock was shut down as part of a three-phase project to replace the vertical lift gate on ...
Works costing £1.36m to replace lock gates on York’s River Foss are needed urgently, a council official has said amid claims only a handful of trophy hunters will benefit.