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 ...

HASTINGS, Minnesota - The locks and dams on the Mississippi River are massive feats of engineering, nearing 100 years old. They shepherd millions of tons of goods each year, acting as water-based ...

After years of funding delays, the Army Corps of Engineers announced plans Wednesday to spend over $829 million on modernizing locks and dams on the Upper Mississippi River, including an infamous ...

The towboat American Beauty churns northward up the Mississippi River at 4 1/2 m.p.h.–pretty good time for a vessel pushing a load of barges roughly as long as the Hancock Building is tall. But now it ...

Locks and dams are simple but powerful things. A dam is a structure built across a river, stream or bayou to hold back water. Gates in the dams allow water to be kept at variable levels as deeds ...

Flooding on the Mississippi River is likely to close three locks on the grain shipping waterway from southern Iowa to northern Missouri later this week, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said on Monday ...

Citing budget cuts and low traffic, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is curtailing operations of its system of locks on the Alabama River and the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and Flint River System.

Flooding is forcing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to close seven locks on the Upper Mississippi River. Allen Marshall, spokesman for the Corps’ Rock Island District, says lock closures on the river ...

The lock was plagued by mechanical issues last year that caused closures and required critical maintenance repairs by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “We had been working with the Army Corps of ...

Q. What are the Colorado River Locks? A. USACE Galveston District locks provide navigation access through the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, assisting vessels crossing the intersection of the Colorado ...

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