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EXTENDED HOURS!
We are extending operation hours on the Allegheny River for the Fourth of July fireworks at Locks 2 & 3.
We will remain open until 2 a.m. the evening of July 4 for fireworks night.
We will return to normal hours of 6 a.m. to midnight beginning July 5.
Listen folks, when your life revolves around dams and life jackets, these are the jokes.
Can you come up with some better #DadJoke that won’t have #CaptainAmerica beat up?
In the meantime, we should mention that dams are no laughing matter.
Each reservoir has a dam with gates that allows us to control their outflow. Our reservoirs help us referee water to reduce flood risks downstream.
For those about to lock—we salute you. All hail to the good times, ‘cause rock has got the right of way. But if you’re in a recreational boat, so do military craft, mail boats and commercial craft. Want to learn more about locking through our facilities? rb.gy/qkgifp
Intrigued by this thought, we once again turned to artificial intelligence, generating an image borrowing from famous Kiss lyrics and our very own USACE vision statement.
#MapMonday Behold, a subway map view of the #PittsburghDistrict. The black and white dots are locks and dams. The blue squares are flood risk management reservoirs. Finally, the district is colored by major watershed.
#ValentinesDay is coming up and we’re listening to love songs like the 1983 classic @_KennyRogers and @DollyParton duet “Islands in the Stream.” Did you know that the @BeeGees wrote it? Well, if we had written it, it’d would have featured Neville & Davis, two Ohio River islands.
Neville Island, just downstream, is home to Pittsburgh Engineer Warehouse and Repair Station (PEWARS) and several other offices and labs essential to the operation of our district. We rely on each other, ah ha. From one office to another, ah ha.
#ValentinesDay is coming up and it’s about time we report we’ve seen an alarming increase in #meetcute incidents occurring at our locks. Last summer we saw this man spill coffee on a woman at Montgomery Locks and Dam while we were trying to give a tour.
By the time the man was able to make it to the bench to retrieve his hat, the woman had left. His dog, very determined to help the humans meet, pulled him over to her, where they got tangled up in the dog leashes and fell into the reservoir! Thankfully, they were ok, and laughed!