Who doesn’t like a giant dam? Melvin Price Locks and Dam opened on October 10, 1989, replacing the aging Lock and Dam No. 26, which had major structural deficiencies.

Dams have been getting the photographic treatment since at least Margaret Bourke White, which you can see here.

The dam is so massive that it is hard to get a sense of scale.

This barge was strangely parked perpendicularly to the river channel.

We looked at Lock and Dam No. 25 in Winfield back in May of 2023.

The whole area across from Alton is crisscrossed by power lines coming from the power plants in the area, for example the one at Portage des Sioux.