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Melvin Price Locks and Dam is a dam and two locks at river mile 200.78 on the Upper Mississippi River , about 17 miles (27 km ) north of Saint Louis, Missouri . The collocated National Great Rivers Museum [Wikidata , explains the structure and its engineering.
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Construction began in 1979, the main lock opened in 1990, and the full structure was completed in 1994. It replaced the earlier Lock and Dam No. 26 , demolished in 1990, and is the first replacement structure on the Upper Mississippi River nine-foot navigation project. The main lock is 1,200 feet (370 m ) long and 110 feet (34 m ) wide; the auxiliary is 600 feet (180 m ) long and 110 feet (34 m ) wide. The main lock has a vertical lift gate and a miter gate while the aux. lock has two miter gates. The dam is 1,160 feet (350 m ) long with 9 tainter gates , each 110 feet (34 m ) wide by 42 feet (13 m ) high.
It is named after Illinois Congressman Charles Melvin Price .
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Melvin Price Locks and Dam - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
National Great Rivers Museum (USACE)
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Rivers Project Office
Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. IL-32, "Upper Mississippi River 9-foot (2.7 m ) Channel Project, Lock & Dam 26R, Alton vicinity, Madison County, IL ", 59 photos, 9 data pages, 5 photo caption pages
Hydroacoustic Identification and Sampling of Fish Aggregations in Tailwater Areas (2005 Monitoring Report – Fish Passage Melvin Price Locks and Dam, Alton, Illinois and Lock and Dam 22, Saverton, Missouri)
Map of Melvin Price Locks and Dam area
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