Flower Mon News Today

The Pittsburgh Engineer District is piling rocks in the Monongahela River to create fish reefs.

Lashed together with steel cables, bundles of trees dangled from a helicopter over the upper Ohio River, ready to become fish habitats.

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. 

Stressing the need for efficient funding for lock construction, WCI hosted members of the media on a tour of Pittsburgh area projects.

The problem with calling pause on projects like Brazos and Chickamauga is that it again stretches out construction times and increases costs.

A focus on the energy outlook and on ongoing construction projects highlighted the second day of WCI's 19th annual Waterways Symposium.

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

The Montgomery Lock construction project on the Upper Ohio River was a big winner in the Corps of Engineers work plan for Fiscal Year 2022.

The riverside lock chamber at Charleroi on the Monongahela River has been dewatered, marking a major milestone in the lock construction project.

January 29, 2021 By Shelley Byrne A project to modernize and improve navigation on the Monongahela River in southwestern Pennsylvania is now 68-70 percent complete after more than 25 years of work. The Lower Mon Project could be substantially complete as early as late 2023 or early 2024, said Stephen Frost, project manager for the Pittsburgh Engineer District. The project involves replacing the fixed-crest dam at Locks and Dam 2 at...