BROOKPORT, IL (KFVS) - The Ohio River Locks and Dam 52 has reopened to river traffic. According to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, it reopened at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, September 14 after worker ...

Locks and Dams 52 is a low lift wicket dam built in 1928 consisting of 487 timber and steel wicket gates adjacent to one another stretching the width of the Ohio River at mile marker 938.9.

BROOKPORT (WSIL) — A system to help boats and barges travel the Ohio River in Brookport is set to be demolished. Crews will soon be setting off explosives daily to slowly take down the nearly ...

OLMSTED — Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected this fall to partially open new lock-and-dam system on the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky after 30 years of work.

The Army Corps of Engineers held a conference call last week to trumpet the imminent completion of the Olmsted Locks and Dam project on the Ohio River in Illinois. The project, which began in 1995 ...

A sort of subdued glee wafted over the Ohio River’s banks near Olmsted, ... The two side-by-side Olmsted locks, each 1,200 feet long, will replace deteriorated Locks 52 and 53, ...

8 by 12 ft patch for cracks in McAlpine Lock Gate The Corps of Engineers has completed repairs of a lock on the Ohio River and reopened the river after a 10-day shutdown--four days earlier than ...

The McAlpine Locks and Dam play a crucial role in helping vessels down the Ohio River, but what else do they do?In this week's Ask Caray, WLKY's Caray Grace took a trip to the McAlpine Locks ...

"There are seven locks and dams in our area on the Ohio River, some of them they have the dam portion that goes across the river and if it gets too high the barge can't actually go over, but this ...