November 7, 2024

Soo Locks Coffer Dam Project LEAKS

2010 Soo Locks Engineer Day- Todays picture shows one of two coffer dams being built to stop the flow of water in both direction for construction of a new larger lock for larger ships in the future. But after talking with one of the people yesterday , we were told engineers mis calculated the flow of water and the coffer dams LEAK , OUCH !! So yesterday we saw them digging the center filler material back out to refigure the solution ?
But not to worry, we were also told there is no more money to proceed on building the new locks so it was ok for them not to be exactly on schedule.