Everything about Lock And Dam No 2 totally explained
» The first lock and dam to be built on the Mississippi was also called Lock and Dam No. 2. See Meeker Island Lock and Dam.
Lock and Dam No. 2 is located along the
Upper Mississippi River near
Hastings, Minnesota and was originally built in
1930. The eastern
dam portion is 722 feet (220 m) wide and has 19
tainter gates. A
hydroelectric station that produces about 4.4
megawatts is owned by the city of Hastings, while the 110 × 600 foot (34 × 183 m)
lock is operated by the
St. Paul district of the
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers'
Mississippi Valley Division. There's also a wide earthen dam on the western side of the facility.
Following construction, the original lock walls settled and began to lean out of alignment, so a replacement lock was built. It was finished in
1948. A rehabilitation phase ran from
1987 to
1995.
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