The United States Army Engineers has approved a completely funded cost for the new SOO blockade of $ 2.619 million, according to Detroit district spokeswoman Carrie Fox. Cost reduction amounts to 13% less than $ 3.2 billion authorized by Congress. The estimate was certified on July 9 and was announced publicly during a web seminar of interest on September 11.
Fox said that the certified figure includes all construction contracts, complete, ongoing and future, as well as the management of management, contingency and the labor costs of the body for planning, project management, design and supervision and administration. Does not cover operations or maintenance after the blocking is put into service.
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The representation, above, represents as the SOO locks will be seen once the new blockade of the SOO in Sault Ste is completed. Marie, Mich. Image: USACE.
No characteristic needed for a totally functional chamber of 1,200 feet, he added. “The cost of the project completely funded by $ 2.619 million includes all the necessary functions for a navigation block of 1,200 functional lengths,” Fox told Email.
With efficient funding during the tax years 2026 to 2030, the project is still on the way to the end of summer 2030. The project is considered essential for national supply chains; A 2015 Homeland Security Study warned that a six-month Poe interruption could involve 11 million American jobs.
The new SOO block will add a second Poe chamber: 1,200 feet by 110 feet, to the footprint of the Sabin lock, to manage the 1,000 -foot transporters that move almost all the great iron ore lakes. USACE said that more than 88% of the merchandise traveling the lock system is limited to the POE, emphasizing the need for redundancy.
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The project was authorized to the Law on the Development of Water Resources from 2022 to about $ 3.219 million. Fox emphasized that certified costs estimates are an internal tool that provides a “screenshot in time” of the cost planned by completion and “do not affect or change the authorized cost of WRDA 22” project.
Progress so far
The deepening of the canal to the up of the phase ended in 2022 and the approach walls to phase 2 reached a substantial completion in September 2024.
In June 2025, the body granted Kokosing-Alberici-Tray LLC $ 95.3 million in phase 3 options that cover downstream work, free hands and arresting ships downstream. These prizes followed the base contract 3 of $ 1,068 billion of phase 3 left by 2022.
Phase 3 also includes the demolition of the Sabin lock, the feeding of Davis’s lock, the construction of a new pump well, the reduction of power and a bridge on the hydroelectric plant. The body says that the global program is on track for the end of summer 2030 with constant appropriations.
Also this month, Enr Midwest appointed “uphill walls at the Soo Loks complex, phase 2” one of the three finalists in his project by 2025, which will take place on November 18 in the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel. Click here For more information about the event.
