Grays Landing Lock & Dam facts for kids

Grays Landing Lock and Dam
Location	Nicholson Township, Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Monongahela Township, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	39°49′25″N 79°55′19″W / 39.8236°N 79.9219°W / 39.8236; -79.9219
Construction began	1988
Opening date	1995
Operator(s)	U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Pittsburgh District
Dam and spillways
Impounds	Monongahela River

Grays Landing Lock and Dam, previously known as Lock and Dam Number 7, is one of nine navigational structures on the Monongahela River between Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Fairmont, West Virginia. Maintained and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the gated dam forms an upstream pool that is 11.2 miles (18.0 km) long, stretching to the base of the Point Marion Lock and Dam. It is located at river mile 82.

There is one lock chamber on the left descending bank of the river at the dam. The reservoir formed by the dam is also a municipal and industrial water supply. The structure is the third on the site. Originally, an 1880s stone masonry structure sat in this location; it was replaced in 1923 by a modern dam.