Tea Bird » allegheny river http://teabird.com What A Tidy Mess Sat, 23 Oct 2010 14:55:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Erosion Could Cause Allegheny River Dam To Fail http://teabird.com/2008/10/28/erosion-could-cause-allegheny-river-dam-to-fail/ http://teabird.com/2008/10/28/erosion-could-cause-allegheny-river-dam-to-fail/#comments Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:10:02 +0000 Matthew David Carter http://teabird.com/?p=854 We really could use a big infrastructure investment around Pittsburgh. These locks & dams are 75 years old and a vital, if often unseen, component of our local infrastructure. The...]]>

We really could use a big infrastructure investment around Pittsburgh. These locks & dams are 75 years old and a vital, if often unseen, component of our local infrastructure.

The Army Corps of Engineers says a dam on the Allegheny River in western Pennsylvania is so eroded it could fail if it is hit by a barge or a large ice load.

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