By Lee Roberts Nashville Engineer District Public Affairs A contractor for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has placed the 10th and final concrete shell for the… Read More
Locks and Dams
A study commissioned by the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association (PNWA) has found that if the four lower Snake River dams were removed, the closures would cost up to… Read More
Two recent studies by the members of the University of Tennessee’s Transportation Institute have estimated devastating consequences of possible lock closures. One study looks at possible scenarios for corn… Read More
The busiest recreational lock on the Allegheny River reopened November 14 after months of repair work that began August 5. During the work, the lock chamber was open several… Read More
Commercial navigation is moving again through the John H. Overton Lock—also called Lock 2—on the Red River located at Mile 40.8 near Alexandria, La., following a two-month closure for… Read More
The St. Paul Engineer District recently awarded a $3.2 million contract to Kaiyuh Services LLC, Fort McCoy, Wis., to install new miter gate anchorages at Upper Mississippi River Lock… Read More
Bonneville Lock and Dam on the Columbia River reopened on the evening of September 27 after having been closed since September 8. The Corps of Engineers had originally predicted… Read More
Cleanup efforts are almost complete at Jamie Whitten Lock at Mile 412 on the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway following an early September incident that led to the release of crude oil into… Read More
The Nashville Engineer District is in the process of reassigning the Lock C site to the U.S. Army Garrison at Fort Campbell, Ky. The Lock C site has historically been… Read More
Unexpected damage to concrete structures at the Bonneville navigation lock shut down commercial traffic on the Columbia River. The navigation lock was closed September 5 after lock operators detected… Read More
