Posted on April 4, 2016
By Melissa Daniels, TRIB Live
A single signature is holding up a long-delayed $2.3 billion plan to repair three dilapidated locks and dams on the Ohio River.
The Upper Ohio River Navigation project — in which new 600-by-110-foot locks would be built at the Emsworth, Dashields and Montgomery locks and dams — must be approved by top Army Corps of Engineers officials before the project can be submitted to Congress for approval. That can’t happen until a study about the project plan is completed, and that has taken 13 years and cost $17 million, said U.S. Rep. Keith Rothfus, R-Sewickley.
“It is time for the Army Corps to address the continual delays that plague this project and get this project under way for our constituents,” Rothfus wrote in a statement.
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