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Now in its 40 year, the Lock Maintenance Workshop has grown from a gathering of a dozen people to more than 150, including international participants. The workshop, hosted annually by the Corps' Great Lakes and Ohio River Division for government entities, is unique in that it includes presentations by the people actually doing the work on locks and dams and not their supervising engineers or administrators. "Obviously we get the best information from them as opposed to someone who is trying to retell their story," said Todd Kimery, regional maintenance program manager for the division, who oversees the workshop. The workshop takes place in late January or early February yearly and moves around the nation. The last in-person workshop was in 2020 in Champaign, 111. This year's workshop was February 7-9 in a virtual format. Normally, the workshops include two days of presentations and a third day composed of maintenance project site visits. Even with moving online, however, attendance has stayed steady at more than 150 people, with participants including those from the U.S. and Canada as well as from those working on the Panama Canal. At times it has attracted participants from as far away as Brazil and the Netherlands as well. |