Slightly OT: Markland Dam locks on Ohio River failed catastrophically on Sunday

Not really road-related, but it is transportation-related, and a reasonably important (and as yet unreported here) news item to boot. Locks at the Markland Dam, located between Cincinnati and Louisville on the Ohio River, failed in a manner the Army Corps of Engineers termed "catastrophic" early Sunday morning.

I can't find anything that suggests the vehicular bridge at the site that connects KY 1188 and Indiana SR 101 has been affected, so I presume all is normal there.

Some 55 million tons of cargo travel the river annually, and a fair bit of it is WV and KY coal being transported to coal-fired power plants, according to the below-linked CNN article.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/27/kentucky.lock.break/index.html
http://www.accuweather.com/news-story.asp?partner=accuweather&traveler=0&zipChg=1&article=7

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