Thursday, March 31, 2011

CHICAGO RIVER UNRESTRICTED UNTIL NOV. 3

Excerpt from a Great Lakes Boating Federation press release,
October 13, 2010


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jessica Tobacman

"The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has completed the first two phases of parasitic structure installation ahead of schedule, and the restrictions planned from Oct. 13 to 15 will be unnecessary. This will allow area boaters who are voyaging back to their dry storage yards to be uninterrupted in-transit. The two out of three large, parasitic structures installed from Oct. 4 to 9 were designed to keep electric current from the fish barriers from traveling down the Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal (CSSC). (read more)

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