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September 19 2020 Vol. XXV • No. 19
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USACE Begins $1B Soo Lock Project
Komatsu Breaks Ground for New Campus in Milwaukee...10
Alta Hosts Its First Annual Golf Outing in Chicago...18
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers photo
An artist’s rendition that illustrates what it might look like if a second Poe-sized lock replaced two of the older locks. JCB Restores Vintage Backhoe Loader to Former Glory...56
Table of Contents ............4
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Iron ore-carrying vessels don’t do rapids, particularly when heading upstream. To get around them, structures called “locks” are built — sort
of stairs for boats. Vessels float into one end, entry gates are closed and the level of water inside the lock is raised or lowered to match the level outside the gates at the other end. Exit gates then are opened and the vessel floats away at a new elevation.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers operates locks at the eastern end of Lake Superior at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., where the lake level drops 21 ft. via rapids into the St. Marys River. The river flows some 70 mi. farther east to Lake Huron. see SOO page 60
Recycling Section ....29-45 Attachment & Parts Section ......................51-55
Wichita’s $65M North Junction Rebuild Progresses By Cindy Riley
Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................61-69 Snow & Ice Section..75-79 Auction Section ......83-91 Business Calendar ........84 Advertisers Index ..........90
CEG CORRESPONDENT
Construction crews in Kansas continue making progress on a $65 million undertaking known as The Green Project. Workers are tasked with replacing aging pavement; the structurally deficient bridges over the Little Arkansas River; and the functionally obsolete bridges over Arkansas Avenue and Broadway Avenue. “The Green Project is just the first
Kansas Department of Transportation photo
phase of a much larger rebuilding of the I-135/I-235/K-96/K-254 interchange, known locally in the Wichita area as the North Junction,” said Tom Hein, Wichita Metro public affairs manager, KDOT. “It sets up I-235 to function with future see GREEN page 50
Construction crews in Kansas continue making progress on a $65 million undertaking known as The Green Project.