Ice jam blocks traffic on Allegheny River

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NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. — An ice jam upriver from New Kensington's Ninth Street Bridge is creating navigation problems on the Allegheny River.

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He said the river temperature at the C.W. Bill Young Lock and Dam (Lock No. 3) in Plum, was 35.5 degrees on Jan. 1 and by Monday, Jan. 6, it had dropped to 32 degrees.