December 11, 2020 By Shelley Byrne
A new floating barge equipped with a special incinerator is helping the Nashville Engineer District to efficiently dispose of stumps, logs and driftwood debris.
The incinerator barge began operating in October on Lake Cumberland, a reservoir of the Cumberland River in south central Kentucky, Nashville district public affairs specialist Lee Roberts said. It is equipped with an air curtain burner into which deckhands feed driftwood.
“We can burn anything that we can physically lift and put in there,” said Christian Stringer, master tender of the PRIDE of the Cumberland, the vessel that picks up debris and now moves the barge with the incinerator around.