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Aug 28, 2019 at 02:37 PM CST
PEORIA, Ill. — The bulk of grain, fertilizer, petroleum and other shipments on the Illinois River will be idle next summer for major repairs to six aging locks and dams. “The locks and dams were built in the 1930s, so they’re old and they need work,” Dennis Shannon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Illinois Waterways operations project manager in Peoria, said at an Aug. 6 informational meeting hosted by the Peoria Farm Bureau.

Aug 28, 2019 at 02:37 PM CST

PEORIA, Ill. — The bulk of grain, fertilizer, petroleum and other shipments on the Illinois River will be idle next summer for major repairs to six aging locks and dams. “The locks and dams were built in the 1930s, so they’re old and they need work,” Dennis Shannon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Illinois Waterways operations project manager in Peoria, said at an Aug. 6 informational meeting hosted by the Peoria Farm Bureau.