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Pages in category "United States Army Corps of Engineers dams" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 312 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Willingham, William F. Northwest Passages: A History of the Seattle District, US Army Corps of Engineers (US Army Corps of Engineers, Seattle District, 1992) online. Historic photos of Corps of Engineers lock and dam projects throughout Texas in 1910-20s (from the Portal to Texas History) Stars and Stripes (1945).
This is a list of locks and dams of the Ohio River, which begins at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers at The Point in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and ends at the confluence of the Ohio River and the Mississippi River, in Cairo, Illinois. A map and diagram of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
T. J. O’Brien Lock and Dam on the Calumet River, part of the Illinois Waterway. A series of eight locks, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, controls water flow from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system. The upper lock, T.J. O'Brien, is 7 miles from Lake Michigan on the Calumet River and the last lock is 90 miles (140 km ...
The dam measures approximately 60 feet high and 918 feet long. The Operations Building, or powerhouse, is a utilitarian two-story building in a vernacular early-20th century revival style. The lock and dam were built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a part of an extensive system of locks and dams to improve navigation along the Allegheny ...
The Hannibal Locks and Dam are a United States Army Corps of Engineers concrete locks and lift gate dam, located at river mile marker 126.4 on the Ohio River at Hannibal, Ohio and New Martinsville, West Virginia. The locks and dam were built to replace the wicket-type locks and dams Number 12, 13 and 14.
Tugboat at McAlpine Locks and Dam, 2012 Paddling through McAlpine. From 1925 to 1927, the dam for generating hydroelectric power was added, and the locks were expanded, first by a private company and then by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The hydroelectric plant at the time was the seventh largest hydroelectric plant in the United States.
Along the original Illinois Waterway, Starved Rock Lock and Dam is the southernmost facility. [1] The lock and dam are located along the Illinois River near the north central Illinois village of Utica. [1] The lock and dam is at river mile 231 just upstream from Plum Island. [2] [3] The facility is presently operated by the U.S. Army Corps of ...