Charleroi Lock News Today

The Waterways Journal takes its annual look back at the major events that made news on the waterways in the last year.

Nearly 20 years after beginning construction and $1.23 billion later, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Charleroi Lock and Dam in Monessen, Pa., is scheduled to be completed later this year. 

A new, expanded riverside lock chamber at Charleroi, Pa., on the Monongahela River will begin filling with water sometime the week of May 22.

Members of the Inland Waterways Users Board asked pointed questions of Corps of Engineers presenters at the 99th meeting of the board.

One Corps of Engineers division encompasses both the Ohio River and the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence Seaway System.