The repair work on the MacArthur Lock is well underway and its hoped that it will be opened again to shipping traffic by the middle to late next week.  Jim Peach is an Associate Engineer with the US Corps of Engineers and he talks about where the repair work on a set of gates is being carried out…

Vessels have had to be rerouted to the only other operational lock during the repair process—-to the nearby and larger Poe Lock.