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, ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ civil works mission is responsible for constructing the U.S. inland waterways ...

CEDAR RAPIDS — With bipartisan support for a proposed $1.2 trillion investment in America’s aging infrastructure, members of Iowa’s congressional delegation are optimistic upgrades to the Mississippi ...

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 Montgomery Locks and Dam is a key piece of the waterway system in the Pittsburgh region, which carries about 20 million ...

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 ...

UMATILLA, Ore. — The community gathered Sept. 21 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the McNary Lock and Dam. The Umatilla Museum & Historical Foundation and the Walla Walla District of the U.S.

In 1939, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ LaGrange Lock and Dam was completed on the Illinois River near Beardsville, just north of where the Illinois meets the Mississippi. It’s a key shipping point ...

Every spring, lock and dam staff place buoys on the Mississippi River identifying the restricted area of each dam in the St. Paul District. For the past five years, high water has prevented personnel ...

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 ...