PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh will be getting new docks on the Monongahela River for as many as 17 recreational watercrafts.

Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said the permanent tie-up facility will be built with a $1.35 million grant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that was announced Monday morning.

The docks will stretch four blocks in the city's South Side, behind the South Side Works off of South 27th Street, and will be part of the planned South Shore Riverfront Park.

Work on the docks is scheduled to begin next year and they will be in use in 2011 or 2012.

"Our rivers are an asset," said Ravenstahl. "They are an asset that we need to continue to invest in. We are in the process of looking into developing a riverfront master plan that will be a blueprint not just for the South Side, Station Square, North Shore, but all three rivers that run through our city."

Construction of the South Shore Riverfront Park is expected to begin in the summer. The park will include historical trail markers, continuing the Three Rivers Heritage Trail system and Greater Allegheny Passage.

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