Posted on 2/9/2018
After nearly three decades of construction delays and funding hiccups, the much-anticipated $3 billion Olmsted Lock and Dam project on the Ohio River is now estimated to open in the fall of 2018 or sooner, according to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
Considered the nation’s most expensive and largest civil works project ever undertaken, the two new 1,200-foot locks and 2,500-foot dam across the river at Olmsted, Ill., will be fully functional next year. But the project won’t be completed until 2022 after the old locks 52 and 53 are removed from the river and cleanup work is finished on land.
The Corps says the new...