Each lock is drained about every 20 years for maintenance and inspection. It's a multimillion-dollar project that takes months from planning to execution.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before, but now that summer nears, I’m going to get back in shape. Oh, ... The Cap’n and I are going to be ship shape — or barge shaped Life. Apr 13, 2024.

More: A barge, a bulkhead and $3.3 million: How the Mississippi River's locks and dams stay in ship shape This year, the shipping season began on March 17, when the motor vessel Joseph Patrick ...

A barge, a bulkhead and $3.3 million: How the Mississippi River's locks and dams stay in ship shape. Madeline Heim. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. HASTINGS, Minnesota ...

Barge traffic on the river's northern stretch halts each year until springtime because the river ... a bulkhead and $3.3 million: How the Mississippi River's locks and dams stay in ship shape.

As in, BARGE — a big, flat-bottomed boat — and SIN, as in one of the seven deadly, which includes sloth. ... So the title of this puzzle, “Shape Up or Ship Out,” is a massive hint.

Dark Seas. America's Most Mysterious Ship with Backward Propellers. Posted: February 25, 2025 | Last updated: March 26, 2025. On a moonlit night off the California coast, a strange and angular ...

Kaz Griffin of Tacoma climbs aboard The Cement Ship, the remains of a scuttled concrete barge on the beach in DuPont, Washington, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. The search for truth about ‘Concrete ...

SpaceX workers got stuck on a barge with a spaceship full of toxic fuel in 2010, a new book reports. After the Dragon spaceship's first flight, a SpaceX crew retrieved it from the ocean.

The interior of The Cement Ship, a scuttled concrete barge on the beach in DuPont, Washington, on Wednesday, June 5, 2024. Tony Overman [email protected] ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that barge companies are reducing their loads just as Midwest farmers are ...

Each lock is drained about every 20 years for maintenance and inspection. It's a multimillion-dollar project that takes months from planning to execution.