Controlled demolition video of dam at Monongahela River Locks and Dam 2 in Braddock, Pennsylvania in March 2004. In 2004, the Pittsburgh District converted the facility near Braddock from a fixed-crest dam, which is submerged underwater, into a gated dam. The new dam raised the original upstream pool level by three feet. The fixed crest in Braddock was originally built in 1902. It was more than 100 years old when the gated dam replaced it.
The demolition is part of a multi-decade construction project known as the Lower Monongahela River Project, which was authorized in 1992 to include work at three navigation facilities on the Monongahela River closest to Pittsburgh. The three facilities include Locks and Dam 2, 3 and 4 near Braddock, Elizabeth and Charleroi, Pennsylvania, respectively. They are the three oldest currently operating-navigation facilities on the Monongahela River. They create deep navigation pools for the primary purpose of commercial navigation, but the pools are also popular with recreational boaters and create locations for industrial and municipal water intakes. These locks experience the highest volume of commercial traffic on the entire Monongahela River navigation system.
| Date Taken: | 03.24.2004 |
| Date Posted: | 05.16.2024 14:50 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 923854 |
| VIRIN: | 040324-O-TI382-3959 |
| Filename: | DOD_110312529 |
| Length: | 00:00:36 |
| Location: | PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, US |
| Downloads: | 4 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 4 |
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