Around 175 million tons of freight travels on the Mississippi River each year, and from the river’s headwaters to southern Illinois, a series of locks and dams guide barges through the journey.Traffic is only increasing, but the locks and dams have aged far past their life expectancy. Even functioning properly, they slow barges down, and shippers and commodity groups fear a worse infrastructure breakdown is on the horizon.
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When plans were first developed for a bigger replacement lock at the Chickamauga Dam nearly two decades ago, the project was projected to cost less than $300 million and was expected to provide a quicker and better water passageway on the Tennessee River by 2020, if not sooner.
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