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Mississippi River Lock & Dam No. 18

General Information

Completion: 8 September 1937
Status: in use

Project Type

Structure: Roller drum gate barrage
Tainter gate barrage
Function / usage: Lock

Location

Location: , , ,
Impounds:
  • Mississippi River
Coordinates: 40° 53' 1.06" N    91° 1' 34.44" W
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Technical Information

Dimensions

length of movable section 411.5 m
lock width 33.5 m
length 182.9 m

Excerpt from Wikipedia

Lock and Dam No. 18 is a lock and dam located near Gladstone, Illinois and Burlington, Iowa on the Upper Mississippi River around river mile 410.5. The movable dam is 1,350 feet (411.5 m) and consists of 3 roller gates and 14 tainter gates. The lock is 110 feet (33.5 m) wide by 600 feet (182.9 m) long. In 2004, the facility was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as Lock and Dam No. 18 Historic District, #04000178 covering 2,049 acres (8.3 km²), 1 building, 4 structures and 4 objects.

Hydroelectric plant

In March 2009, local officials started discussing plans to install a hydroelectric generating plant on the dam.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Lock and Dam No. 18" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Participants

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  • About this
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  • Structure-ID
    20030593
  • Published on:
    24/08/2007
  • Last updated on:
    29/01/2022
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