The project to build a new lock chamber at Emsworth Dam on the Ohio River received an additional $77 million in Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) supplemental funding, the… Read More
Locks and Dams
Work at Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Illinois Waterway will include a restriction period and partial closure beginning next month and a full closure for three weeks in… Read More
The Vicksburg Engineer District announced March 25 the temporary closure of Thatcher Lock & Dam, the northernmost navigation structure on the Ouachita River near Camden, Ark., due to high water… Read More
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
Demolition at the former Ohio River locks and dams 52 and 53 in southern Illinois is expected to be complete by the end of the year. While landside demolition was… Read More
The Portland Engineer District recently released a video showing some of the work performed during a recent closure of Bonneville Lock on the Columbia River. During the closure, the lock… Read More
The Corps of Engineers project team in charge of the Lock & Dam 25 construction is moving ahead, while reconfiguring its plans now that it has full funding. Mike Feldman,… Read More
Officials with the Vicksburg Engineer District’s Thatcher Lock & Dam, the northernmost navigation structure on the Ouachita River in Arkansas, first noticed something wrong at the structure in late October… Read More
The Little Rock Engineer District reports that Norrell Lock (Lock 1) and Joe Hardin Lock (Lock 3) on the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System (MKARNS) are scheduled for closures during… Read More
The Corps of Engineers-Pittsburgh District will begin the first of two major lock closures this week that are expected to cause major delays on the Upper Ohio River for the… Read More