Story by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 09.02.2025
After over a decade in storage, massive 120-foot-long concrete wall beams are being transported by barge from Watts Bar Dam to the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project site, marking a key milestone in improving navigation infrastructure on the Tennessee River. These beams, originally fabricated in 2013, are crucial to completing the upstream approach wall, which is now 68% finished. The......
Story by Noe Gonzalez | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 12.06.2024
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. —The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, in partnership with Shimmick Construction Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority, is making significant progress on the Chickamauga Lock replacement project. The transfer of 14 miter gate components to the site is scheduled to take place throughout this month....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 05.23.2023
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (May 23, 2023) – Construction of a new navigation lock on the Tennessee River reached a monolithic milestone yesterday as crews and officials held a topping-off ceremony to mark the completion of the first concrete monolith....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 02.03.2021
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (Feb. 3, 2021) – The 55th chief of engineers visited the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project on the Tennessee River today to meet with project managers and engineers and gain a better understanding of ongoing construction of a new lock chamber....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 07.23.2020
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (July 23, 2020) – A monolithic effort to construct a navigation chamber at the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project is heating up where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has already placed 19,000 cubic yards of concrete and more than 700 tons of reinforcing steel....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 11.14.2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Nov. 14, 2019) – The assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works visited the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project today in Chattanooga, Tenn., then jetted to Music City for a town hall meeting to engage with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District workforce....
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 10.06.2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 6, 2019) – The commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division lauded the project manager for the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project this week for piloting a program called the “Joint Risk Register.”...
Story by Leon Roberts | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District | 10.04.2019
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Oct. 4, 2019) – The commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division visited the Nashville District this week for a district overview and project updates. It is the general’s first trip to the district since taking command of the division July 12, 2019....
