ST. PAUL, Minn. - The St. Paul District is investing more than $18 million in tow rail systems, vital pieces of equipment which assist tows locking through locks and dams when traveling upriver. Locks ...

Lock and Dam No. 10 in Guttenberg, Iowa, (pictured) was dewatered and maintained in 2010-11. A similar project began this week on Lock and Dam No. 7 in La Crescent. (Submitted photo: Army Corps of ...

Photo by Art Smith The lock chamber of the lock No. three in Lowell. When Pioneers first arrived in Marietta in 1788 they landed and settled near the mouth of the Muskingum River. The river had been ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, announced today that the Lock and Dam 1 open house, originally scheduled for ...

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, ...

Newly installed gates at Lock and Dam 27 in Granite City, Ill., on Friday, Mar. 8, 2013, Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle, [email protected] ST. LOUIS • On a sunny Thursday morning in February, ...

The Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers last week awarded a $12.9 million contract to install new lift gates and a control system at the Montgomery Locks and Dam in Industry.

LA CRESCENT, Minn. — Late spring snow lingered on bluffs next to the Mississippi River as a tug from Little Rock, Arkansas, slowly crept northward, pushing a dozen empty barges. Sitting high out of ...

Allegheny River Lock and Dam No.1 was built in the late 1800s to help make river commerce easier in the Pittsburgh region. Now, it's been mostly dismantled and is the home of Lockwall One Marina near ...

Coal barges are not an uncommon sight for West Virginians who live along riverways, but for those who live along the Kanawha ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Newly installed gates at Lock and Dam 27 in Granite City, Ill., on Friday, Mar. 8, 2013, Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle, ...