The Mississippi runs the spine of America, touching 10 states and draining waters from 21 more, a vast waterway with a rich mythology, a sometimes powerful beauty and an always alarming propensity to ...
Lock and Dam 12 in Bellevue, Iowa, and Lock and Dam 17 in New Boston, Illinois, are both turning 87 years old. Lock 19 down ...
Work is underway to build a new island in the Mississippi River near Hastings, a $10 million project aimed at preserving the lock-and-dam system that allows some 10 million tons of goods to be shipped ...