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Lock and closures will start on June

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1st and end September 30th and that

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involves closing down three locks on

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the Illinois waterway . At the same

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time , Brandon Road , Mar Sales and

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Dresden Island , the users of the

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waterway have stressed that they would

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like to have one consolidated closure

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as opposed to many similar long term

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closures , year to year to year .

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We did the closures as well in 2020

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it's to rehabilitate the likes of dams ,

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the aging infrastructure that we have

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and to make improvements and mitigate

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downtime and just make the facilities

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better . It's important to do the work

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because with the components that are

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being worked on , the reliability will

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be , you know , brought back to almost

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new conditions . Closures are important

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to keep commerce moving up and down the

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waterway , which is extremely important

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to the nation's economy to keep a

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reliable navigation system um so that

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we can operate those 365 days 24 hours

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and also to be able to get pleasure

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crafts up and down the water system ,

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et cetera . It is a single lane highway .

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So where we have to close a lock it

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basically shuts down river traffic . I

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think this will really help in the

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future for keeping barge traffic

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flowing as it should . And not , I

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guess , not just industry but uh , you

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know , for private and pleasure boaters

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and for everything . So it would be a

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good thing to keep it moving .