WLKY

Ask Caray: How do the McAlpine Locks and Dam on the Ohio River work?

BARNSTABLE-BROWN DIABETES CENTER. WELL, THE MCALPINE LOCKS AND DAM PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN HELPING VESSELS DOWN THE OHIO RIVER. BUT WHAT ELSE DO THEY DO? AND THIS WEEK’S ASK CARAY MORNING ANCHOR CARAY ...
The Gazette

Here's how locks and dams on the Mississippi River work, and why they exist

The tug Theresa L. Wood heads upstream after locking through Lock and Dam #8 in May in Genoa, Wis. The vessel was moving barges from St. Louis to Winona, Minn. The locks allow the boats to gradually ...
KGW8

Explainer: How do the Highland Lakes and dams work?

CENTRAL TEXAS — The Highland Lakes, their flows and storage units are extremely important to the Hill Country and Austin metro. Lakes Travis and Buchanan -- the region's water supply reservoirs -- ...
inforum

Dam 'works like a charm'

ENDERLIN, N.D. - The Maple River Dam took five decades of planning and persistence in navigating the wilderness of the federal bureaucracy before the embankment was finished last fall. But it took ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

South-east Queensland's largest dam is 'full'. What does it mean?

With the wet season only just underway, it might make some a little nervous to hear south-east Queensland's biggest reservoir – Wivenhoe Dam – is just about full. But the people in charge of the dam ...
MinnPost

Here’s how the locks and dams on the Mississippi River work, and why they exist

… but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a tax-deductible donation today. Get on a boat on the upper Mississippi River, and you’ll eventually come upon a ...
Yahoo

Here's how the locks and dams on the Mississippi River work, and why they exist

Get on a boat on the upper Mississippi River, and you'll eventually come upon a looming concrete structure stretching across the river's main channel. It's called a lock and dam, and it's a distinct ...