The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) awarded the second contract for the Brandon Road Interbasin Project on April 11. The $113.8 million contract will complete the remainder of the project’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial view of the Brandon Road lock and dam near Joliet, Illinois. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. More ...

Washington ― Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is pushing back against the Trump administration's reasoning for reassigning management of a key federal-state project to block invasive Asian carp from reaching ...

An invasive carp invasion could imperil the Great Lakes’ $7 billion annual fishery and disrupt the region’s boating, beach and tourism economies.

“Despite the Brandon Road Interbasin Project being in Illinois, the state has received no new communication from the Trump administration,” Matt Hill, spokesperson for Pritzker, wrote in a statement. ...

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More than a month after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted work on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, part of a $1.15 billion project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes, the ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has stopped work on a project to slow the spread of invasive carp in the Great Lakes, a move Gov. JB Pritzker on Friday said amounted to a major attack on ...

The Trump administration has halted work on a barrier system designed to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. This work stoppage occurred as juvenile invasive carp were discovered closer to Lake ...

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) will soon begin the next construction phase of the Brandon Road Interbasin Project (BRIP). This comes as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil ...

Great Lakes groups are calling for the immediate restart of a project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes. The billion-dollar Brandon Road Interbasin project was halted by the Trump ...