Rock Piles Provide Fish Habitat In Lower Monongahela River
The Pittsburgh Engineer District is piling rocks in the Monongahela River to create fish reefs.
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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.