NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Jan. 24, 2020) – Matthew Davis, a geographer, assigned to Engineering Construction Division, is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District employee of the month of December 2019.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District placed the 10th and final concrete shell on the downstream riverbed Feb. 2, 2020. Johnson Brothers, contractor for the cofferdam contract, set down the 1.7-million pound shell that is part of the cofferdam and a permanent part of the new lock wall for the Kentucky Dam Lock Addition Project. With the placement, the cofferdam project is 73 percent complete. (USACE video by Leon Roberts)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Feb. 24, 2020) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District has received approval to return Center Hill Lake to normal operations, which means that lake levels will be on the rise for the upcoming recreation season.
The Nashville District has operated Center Hill Lake since 2008 within a targeted pool elevation between 618 and 630 feet as an interim risk reduction measure during the dam safety rehabilitation project. A return to normal operations means the summer pool elevation will be managed between 640 and 648 feet and the winter pool between 625 and 630 feet.
Project Manager Jill Kelley said repair actions involved three major construction contracts. The first project involved a significant...
02.24.2020 | NASHVILLE, TN, US |
Story by Bill Peoples
