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Michigan’s junior U.S. Senator is optimistic work could begin on a new lock at the Soo Locks in Sault Ste Marie after an Army Corps of Engineers study is released next year.
Right now there is one large lock and two small ones, which allow ships to travel from Lake Superior to the lower Great Lakes.
U.S. Senator Gary Peters says if that lone large lock goes down, the state and the country will be in big trouble.
He says the economic impact would be felt across the United States and could reach into the tens of millions of dollars.
The Army Corps of Engineers is trying to determine how feasible it is to replace the two small locks with one large one.
Congress authorized money for that very project some 20 years ago but the money was never appropriated.
