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Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock

Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock

Locks and Dams

Infrastructure Law Fully Funds New Montgomery Lock

February 4, 2022

With more than 97 percent of the Pittsburgh Engineer District’s funding in the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) allocated to the full funding of the Montgomery Locks construction work,… Read More

With Dewatering, Charleroi Project Hits Major Milestone

Kirk McWilliams and Shawn Soltis, resident and field engineers for the Pittsburgh Engineer District, stand over the construction project at Charleroi Locks and Dam on the lower Monongahela River in Pennsylvania on September 30. The district recently finished building the new lock chamber walls and has emptied it of approximately 20 million gallons of water to allow contractors to begin adding the mechanical inner works of the chamber. (Photo by Michel Sauret/Pittsburgh Engineer District)

With Dewatering, Charleroi Project Hits Major Milestone

October 29, 2021

With the pumping out of enough water to fill 30 Olympic-size swimming pools, the riverside lock chamber at Charleroi on the Monongahela River has been dewatered, marking a major milestone… Read More

Lower Monongahela River Project Advances An aerial shot shows ongoing work at Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 for the Lower Mon Project, which is expected to be complete in late 2023 or early 2024 after more than 25 years of construction involving three separate dams. (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Engineer District)

An aerial shot shows ongoing work at Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 for the Lower Mon Project, which is expected to be complete in late 2023 or early 2024 after more than 25 years of construction involving three separate dams. (Photo courtesy of Pittsburgh Engineer District)

Lower Monongahela River Project Advances

January 29, 2021

A project to modernize and improve navigation on the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania is now 68-70 percent complete after more than 25 years of work. The Lower Mon Project… Read More

Permanent Change Sought For IWTF Cost Share

June 14, 2019

Over the past five years, the nation has seen a major advancement of major inland waterway infrastructure projects underway, namely lock construction projects at Olmsted, Lower Monongahela (Lower Mon), Kentucky… Read More

Users Board Gets Lock And Dam Updates

September 7, 2018

Two days before the official inauguration of the Olmsted Locks and Dam Replacement Project on August 30, members of the Inland Waterways Users Board (IWUB) met in Paducah, Ky., to… Read More

Olmsted Opening A Time For Reflection And Resolution

September 7, 2018

The Olmsted Lock and Dam Replacement Project, formally inaugurated on August 30, almost didn’t happen as recently as 2013. Now it is already being put to work impounding a pool… Read More

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