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 ...

As area rivers deal with ice due to recent freezing temperatures, officials continue to monitor local waterways for potential issues and problems. Ice has been detected along stretches of the Ohio ...

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 ...

This week, Barren River Lock and Dam No. 1 officially became the latest in a series of regional dam removals. The pattern began in 2017 with the removal of Green River Lock and Dam No. 6, whose ...

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.

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 ...

Photographs of the Mississippi River taken a century ago show a wide, shallow waterway of braided channels and islands. In dry years, you could wade across it in the early fall. Today, the sandbars ...

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 ...

The Old River Lock in Lettsworth, LA, which is maintained and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans District, re-opened to navigation Nov. 6, 2022. The lock was dewatered and shut ...

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