(File Photo of the Montgomery Locks and Dam)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The project to improve the Montgomery Locks and Dam is underway in Western Pennsylvania. Doubling the commercial river traffic capacity traveling the Ohio River is the goal of this project and according to Shane Checkan, a river man, the $1.6 billion endeavor will be worth the investment. The economic impact will be $1.2 billion in economics, nine million tons of cargo that is navigated yearly being doubled and 10,000 construction jobs being made in the Western Pennsylvania region. The US Army Corps of Engineers confirms that 2033 will be when the Montgomery Locks and Dam project is finished if all goes according to their plan.