CHICAGO, IL (AP)-- Federal officials may place barriers in a Chicago-area river as a short-term step to prevent invasive Asian carp from plundering the Great Lakes.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is focusing on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam site on the Des Plaines River near Joliet, Ill., as a potential spot to block the path of bighead and silver carp that are migrating toward Lake Michigan from the Mississippi River watershed.
Brandon Road is about five miles farther from the lake than an electric barrier network in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal that's now the last line of defense against the carp.
Project manager Dave Wethington says a number of barrier technologies could be used at Brandon Road.
Public meetings on the proposal will be held in December.