Soo Locks gets cash to start new lock prep

Work on a new lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., starts with a deepening of the upstream channel approach.The approach runs about 1.8 kilometres west of the new lock. About 230,000 cubic metes of material is expected to be removed, new lock project manager Mollie Mahoney of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District told The Sault Star.The approach is as shallow as about eight metres in some areas. The goal is about nine metres “to allow enough depth for the vessels to access the new loc