Staff photo by Olivia Ross / The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers celebrated the first “topped out” concrete monolith at the Chickamauga Lock replacement project on May 22. A new Congressional budget deal includes $237 million for the project.
Congress has struggled for months to adopt a budget for a fiscal year that is now nearly half over, but even with limits on discretionary spending, the budget plan ultimately negotiated by House and Senate leaders for fiscal 2024 would pump billions of dollars into East Tennessee, including the biggest...
