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The $1.1 billion barrier being designed for the Brandon Road Lock and Dam in Joliet Township would combine noise, bubbling water and electric shock to keep Asian carp from moving into the Great Lakes.

A coalition of groups is developing an engineering project at the Brandon Road Lock and Dam to block invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan.

A project in Illinois to keep invasive carp out of Lake Michigan is based on a barrier in Ohio that keeps more grass carp from reaching Lake Erie.

LANSING — A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative and expensive engineering project at the 96-year-old Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des Plaines River south of Chicago

LANSING — A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative and expensive engineering project at the 96-year-old Brandon Road Lock and Dam on the Des P

INVASIVE CARP: A coalition of organizations is developing an innovative engineering project south of Chicago to block invasive carp from reaching Lake Michigan. The $1.146 billion project, paid for …

The project is meant to help prevent catastrophic damage to the Great Lakes fishery.

Researchers and local officials are using unusual methods to keep invasive carp from intruding into the Great Lakes and other waterways