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INFRASTRUCTURE

OLMSTED: Online & Open

After more than 30 years of frustratingly slow progress, cost overruns and more than a few mistakes, Olmsted is ? nally poised for success.

That’s something to celebrate.

By Tom Ewing t is of? cial: The U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) by December 2020. Before that happens, Olmsted’s wants Olmsted operational by October. After more performance will be tested and con? rmed. On the Ohio than 30 years, the ribbon cutting to of? cially open River at Olmsted, IL, about 10 miles north of Cairo, IL,

I the Olmsted Locks and Dam took place on August 30. where the mighty Ohio ? ows into the mighty Mississippi,

The very old (1929) upstream locks and dams – Nos. 52 this crucial piece of American infrastructure is ? nally and 53, which Olmsted is replacing – will be dismantled almost in place.

M/V Steve Golding goes through Olmsted

Locks in late July

Credit: USACE

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