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 ...

BELLEVUE, Iowa — U.S. Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) said she wanted to make updating an aging Mississippi River lock and dam system a long-term priority. The Iowa representative toured Lock and Dam 12, ...

How the locks-and-dams system came to be on the Upper Mississippi River: • When the first European explorers came to the Upper Mississippi Valley maybe 350 years ago, the river had a braided channel ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District began refilling the newly constructed lock chamber with water at the Monongahela River Locks and Dam 4 in Charleroi last week. The chamber was ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh Engineering District said work on the Charleroi Lock and Dam, a project that began nearly 20 years ago and whose budget has stretched to $1.23 billion in ...

Give the Army Corps of Engineers the benefit of the doubt. The federal agency, after badly bungling and cooking the books involving a study about potential upgrades to the Mississippi River lock and ...

Some 6 million tons of commodities passed through the lock and dam along the Mississippi River in Hastings in 2023, and with navigation season at a pause, crews this winter have undertaken the ...

City seeking bids from engineering firms to clean-up debris in Monongahela River before it reaches Morgantown Lock and Dam.

A leak at Thatcher Lock and Dam has drained the Ouachita River to historically low levels. But Robert Reynolds, a volunteer adviser for the Union County Water Conservation Board, as well as the ...

CHEBOYGAN — Planned upgrades for the Cheboygan locks and dam system near Lincoln Avenue are ongoing, with the intention of seeking bids from contractors in late spring or early summer. According to ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, announced today that the Lock and Dam 1 open house, originally scheduled for Sept. 27, is rescheduled for Oct. 11, due to road ...

U.S. Sen. Bob Casey talks about the impact of a nearly $860 million investment in the Montgomery Dam at a press event attended by White House infrastructure advisor Mitch Landrieu and Congressman ...