Monongahela River Locks & Dam 3
Phone: 412-384-4532
Locks and Dam 3 is one of nine navigation structures which provide for year-round navigation on the Monongahela River between Pittsburgh, Pa. and Fairmont, West Virginia. It maintains a pool for 17.7 miles upstream to Locks and Dam 4 at Charleroi, PA. Locks and Dam 3 is located at river mile 23.8 at the city of Elizabeth, Pa. The lock chambers and operations buildings are situated along the right bank of the river adjacent to a main line of Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad. There are no public land-based facilities available at the project.
Directions
Road access to the project is from a local road going south out of Elizabeth.
More info at http://www.lrp.usace.army.mil/nav/l3m.htm
Monongahela River
CAM 140 Monongahela
Ren\\233 Chartrand, with illustratrations by Patrice Courcelle. Monongahela was amongst the very first military encounters of the Seven Years\' War, arising from a territorial dispute in the Ohio River Valley. The battle and its consequences are discussed here.
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