Construction resumes on $1.15B Brandon Road invasive carp project

Construction of invasive carp barrier resumes

JOLIET, Ill. — Construction of the invasive carp barrier near Chicago is back on. The ongoing project, designed to keep highly destructive invasive carp ...

Construction resumes on $1.15B Brandon Road invasive carp project

Chicago Construction News staff writer Construction is set to resume on the $1.15 billion Brandon Road Interbasin Project near Joliet, Illinois, after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lifted a stop-work order that had halted the project since late July. The federal-local infrastructure project is designed to prevent invasive carp from moving farther north through the Mississippi River Basin and reaching the Great Lakes. The Army Corps stopped wo…