Items Tagged with 'locks and dams'

The Panama Canal is bracing for renewed drought risk while surging traffic from Strait of Hormuz disruptions tests water-saving measures and long-term reservoir plans.

Just enacted legislation authorizes the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend start-of-construction deadlines for about 37 federally licensed hydropower projects.

The $1.59-billion Montgomery Lock and Dam rehabilitation is under construction from the Army Corps of Engineers' Pittsburgh district and contractor Trumbull-Brayman.

A $1.5-billion project to double the length of the Kentucky Lock—an expansion 25 years in the making—has reached a milestone with installation of final structural monoliths that form its core.

The Trumbull/Brayman joint venture has won a $769.9-million contract to build a new lock chamber at the Montgomery Locks and Dam along the Ohio River in Monaca, Pa., for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Construction on the $1.5-billion project began in 1998, while work under this latest contract started in 2022.

The first thing you might notice about the recent report by ENR Southeast region editor Derek Lacey on the $1-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ lock replacement project at Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga, Tenn., are two descriptive wide angle photographs of the project to complement his narrative.

Work is under way on two other contracts for the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project.

Proposed $900M project could be completed in five years to alleviate water shortage transit impacts, canal officials say, but the Panama government must first approve measures to enable construction start

The multiple-award task-order contracts are funded by $17.1 billion authorized by the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.