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Footage From Upper Mississippi Reveals Aftermath Nobody Expected—Locks Built In 1930s Are COLLAPSING

On November 3rd, 2025, Lock and Dam 25 on the Upper Mississippi River suffered catastrophic gate failure—a 600-ton steel mechanism jamming in partial position, stranding 47 barges and costing $14 million over 11 days. The lock is 90 years old, built in the 1930s with a 50-year design life, and it's just one of 29 locks in the system now failing with exponentially increasing frequency—closures that occurred once every few years in the 1990s now happen every 7-8 days. Army Corps of Engineers estimates each lock has a 40-60% probability of catastrophic failure within the next year, yet the $10 billion needed for replacement remains politically impossible while the $50 billion economy depending on these locks operates on borrowed time with no Plan B.