30 Oct 2018

Notice to Mariners: Corps to remove seasonal buoys at Navigation Facilities

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is alerting mariners that starting October 30, pillar buoys at the district’s 23 navigations facilities will be removed from the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers in advance of winter weather.

13 Oct 2017

Notice to Mariners: Corps to remove seasonal buoys at Navigation Facilities

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District is alerting mariners that beginning Oct. 23, small boat warning signs and pillar buoys at the district’s 23 navigations facilities will be removed from the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio rivers in advance of winter weather.

14 Apr 2015

Lower Mon recovers from icy, muddy aftermath

“I was really shocked by how fast the river came up,” said Lockmaster Paul Meininger, as he stood

13 Apr 2015

Teamwork averts disaster after barges break away

  When 17 barges broke free of their moorings on the raging, ice-filled Monongahela River, March 4,

13 Mar 2015

Fightin’ Ice

For the past few months, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District lock workers on the Allegheny River have been fighting the elements to keep the locks operational as the region endured severe freezing temperatures.