If the upper Mississippi River had to shut down for one season because of lock and dam failures, the amount of agricultural goods displaced would equal between 367,000 and 489,000 loads by truck ...

There are 29 locks and dams on the upper river. The first lock and dam structure, at Upper St. Anthony Falls in Minneapolis, has been closed to barge traffic since 2015.The Army Corps is currently ...

The sign at Lock and Dam No. 2 on the Mississippi River near Hastings, Minn. on Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. The St. Paul District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages 13 locks and dams ...

It’s that last role that is at the center of the St. Louis District’s Navigation Business Line, which manages 300 miles of the Mississippi River, the lower 80 miles of the Illinois River, and ...

The Ford Lock and Dam is also known as Lock and Dam No. 1. It is located between St. Paul and Minneapolis just north of the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Minnesota River. Share ...

Lock and Dam 2, Hastings, Minnesota; Lock and Dam 7, La Crescent, Minnesota; and Lock and Dam 9, Lynxville, Wisconsin, are not expected to close at this time. TOP STORIES June 10, 2025 National ...

SAVERTON, Mo. — A large crowd of supporters from local, state and federal agencies gathered Thursday morning at Lock and Dam 22 to celebrate the beginning of the first fish ...

February isn’t the ideal month for workers into dive into the Mississippi River and upgrade transportation infrastructure, but Jim Cook says there’s no choice.

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 7-day closure at Lock and Dam 24 in Clarksville, Missouri, for the installation of downstream miter gate lifting lugs. A 60-day closure, Jan 1 through March 2, 2025, at Lock and Dam 25 in ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Paul District, closed Lock and Dam 4, near Alma, Wisconsin, April 17, to all commercial and recreational traffic due to high Mississippi River water levels ...

The tug Theresa L. Wood heads upstream after locking through Lock and Dam #8 in May in Genoa, Wis. The vessel was moving barges from St. Louis to Winona, Minn. The locks allow the boats to ...