St. Anthony Falls Lock & Dam Getting Closer to Closure

From the Star Tribune:

WASHINGTON – More than 50 years after the Upper St. Anthony Falls Lock and Dam established Minneapolis as the head of commercial navigation on the Mississippi River, momentum is building in Congress to close the lock to protect Minnesota’s northern waters from invasive Asian carp.

Environmentalists and sportsmen are cheering a House panel’s decision Thursday to incorporate the lock closure into legislation funding ports and water projects across the nation — the first bill of its kind in six years. Despite a budget standoff that could shut down the government in two weeks, the water resources bill is widely expected to pass with rare, bipartisan consensus.

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