Don Zeiler is the Locks Master and Emsworth Locks and Dams located six miles below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He maintains traffic across the dam that separates the different parts of the Ohio River. If you take away the locks there would be no traffic between sections of the Ohio River. We can comfortably say that the landscape and lifestyles of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania could not exist without locks. Water is a Many Splendor’ed Thing brings you another water relationship that has a personally significant impact to your life.