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April 5, 2021 By Shelley Byrne Crews have completed the cofferdam at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, a milestone in preparing for downstream excavation work that will include construction of the remaining portion of the new lock chamber. Johnson Brothers Construction, the contractor on the $68 million downstream cofferdam, is working on punch-list items now but has already turned over the completed cofferdam, said Jeremiah Manning, resident engineer with the Nashville Engineer District. “We had a great big challenging project,” Manning said, referring to difficult river conditions in 2018 and 2019 that resulted in delays to construction progress and about one year of schedule growth. “Hopefully the tide is turning on this project, and we’re isolating ourselves from our biggest risk factor, which is the tailwater at Kentucky Dam.” ....
December 31, 2020 By Shelley Byrne Work continues on the addition of a second chamber at Kentucky Lock, with completion of the downstream cofferdam contract sometime in February projected to temporarily ease navigation delays that have been common over the last several months. The earliest possible completion date for the entire project, at the Kentucky Lake reservoir of the Tennessee River, is in 2025, said Don Getty, project manager for the Nashville Engineer District. “That’s assuming everything goes well,” Getty said. The Kentucky Lock project includes adding a new lock twice as long as the existing 600-foot-long lock at the dam to reduce the significant bottleneck caused by high Tennessee River traffic levels and the current lock’s size. ....