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A report by the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in 1933 proposed, among other things, expanding the size of the lock to 600 by 110 feet (183 m × 34 m) to improve navigation. [1] It would not be until 1946 when Congress would authorize funding for the improvements to the Cal-Sag Channel. [1]
According to the US Army Corps of Engineers, the new dam and locks will reduce passage time to under one hour with the new system. [citation needed] Due to queuing at Lock and Dam Number 52 and Lock and Dam Number 53, it can take cargo traffic 15 to 20 hours each to transit the locks the Olmsted complex is intended to replace. [6]
The lock is owned and operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The dam is owned and operated by Ameren Missouri. The lock and dam obliterated the Des Moines Rapids which had effectively been the northern barrier for traffic on the Mississippi until efforts began in 1837 to address the Mississippi's 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) depth in the rapids.
The Army Corps is warning boaters that Lake ... the 23-mile-long manmade canal in western Martin County spans between Port Mayaca and the St. Lucie Lock and Dam west of Stuart. Army Corps and Lake ...
B. Baldhill Dam; Ball Mountain Dam; Bankhead Lake; Barker Reservoir; Barkley Dam; Barre Falls Dam; Barren River Lake; Bear Creek Dam (Colorado) Beaver Dam (Arkansas)
The history of the US Army Corps of Engineers (DIANE Publishing, 1999). online; Becker, William H. From the Atlantic to the Great Lakes: a history of the US Army Corps of Engineers and the St. Lawrence Seaway (Historical Division, Office of Administrative Services, Office of the Chief of Engineers, 1984) online.
The lock is located at Lower Mississippi River mile 92.6 AHP. Owing to the confluence of multiple waterways at the Industrial Canal and Lock, the lock chamber is also considered mile 6 EHL (east of Harvey Lock) on the Intracoastal and mile 63 on the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal.
Lock and Dam No. 8 is a lock and dam located near Genoa, Wisconsin on the Upper Mississippi River near river mile 679.2 in the United States. It was constructed and was put into operation by April 1937. The site underwent major rehabilitation from 1989 to 2003.