PITTSBURGH - After months of pushing and pulling tons of equipment around on all three Pittsburgh District rivers, the Motor Vessel Evanick received some well-deserved downtime this winter.
The twin screw, 3,000-horsepower, motor vessel is used for towing and tending the Maintenance Branch Plant Unit of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District on the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers. As the district’s repair fleet’s workhorse, it was dry-docked at the Campbell Transportation Company, Georgetown Facility, from late January to early March for major maintenance repairs.
Crews removed and replaced propellers and shafts with newly renovated ones; disassembled, inspected and cleaned rudders; and repaired and maintained other critical components as part of the $439,000 contract.
“The MV Evanick is typically dry docked every two to three years to inspect and perform repairs to the underwater portions of the vessel,” said Jim Williams, project engineer, Pittsburgh District. “This work is important because the MV Evanick is the motor vessel that pushes our fleet from lock chamber to lock chamber for our repair fleet to perform routine and major maintenance.”
The plant unit consist of a service barge (floating machine shop, weld shop, carpenter shop, electric shop and 900 kw of power generating capability), two floating cranes (65-ton and 250-ton lifting capacities), a workboat and up to nine flat-deck cargo barges and two hopper barges – is used in the performance of major maintenance and emergency repairs to the 23 navigation locks and dams within the district. The barges typically transport materials such as miter gates, lock valves, and bulkheads as well as support equipment such as truck and hydraulic cranes, pumps, air compressors, generators, welding machines, and concrete mixers.
The district’s Maintenance Branch has historically worked within the 328 miles of navigable waterways in the Pittsburgh District, but a new regional focus will see the vessel in other districts of the Great Lakes and Ohio River Division as well.
124-feet length
34-feet beam
10 feet hull depth
6.5 feet draft
681 tons displacement (loaded)
3,000 total horsepower
12 statute miles per hour speed
8-person accommodations
Meet Jim Williams, plant manager
Jim Williams serves as the project engineer having overall life cycle responsibility for the district’s repair facilities, floating plant and land plant. Projects include preparation of justification and economic analyses, and the development of plans and specifications for acquisition of new plant and equipment; preparation of plans and specifications for major repair efforts; rehabilitation or retrofit of existing resources; planning and execution of scheduled preventative maintenance; and development and monitoring of plant rental rates as necessary to budget plant income and costs.
| Date Taken: | 03.19.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 03.19.2015 14:57 |
| Story ID: | 157524 |
| Location: | PITTSBURGH, PA, US |
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