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Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations Center, dresses a fresh weld on plates securing a new tow haulage rail on Kentucky Lock wall Nov. 5, 2013. Nashville District employees completed the T... More

Winter Storm - Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line worker restores phone service to residents here after the ice storm on January 27th interrupted power and phone service. Photo by Liz Roll.

Winter Storm - Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line worker ...

The original database describes this as: Title: Utility worker in Kentucky Production Date: 02/21/2009 Caption: Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line worker restores phone service to residents here... More

Winter Storm - Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line crew restores phone service to residents here after the ice storm on January 27th interrupted power and phone service. Photo by Liz Roll.

Winter Storm - Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line crew re...

The original database describes this as: Title: Utility workers and broken trees in Kentucky Production Date: 02/21/2009 Caption: Grand Rivers, Ky. , February 21, 2009 -- a line crew restores phone service t... More

Lake Barkley park rangers Dylon Anderson (left) and

Lake Barkley park rangers Dylon Anderson (left) and

Lake Barkley park rangers Dylon Anderson (left) and Cody Britton hand out water safety promotional items to the public at a local community parade Aug. 26, 2011.

Tony Ellis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Tony Ellis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Tony Ellis, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident engineer, inspects a small vertical karstic feature in the limestone during excavation for the new lock Apri... More

Mike Looney (Left), resource manager at Lake Barkley,

Mike Looney (Left), resource manager at Lake Barkley,

Mike Looney (Left), resource manager at Lake Barkley, briefs visitors June 23, 2012, at an open house prior to their touring the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Barkley Power Plant and Lock. P... More

Park Ranger Charlotte Stenger at Lake Barkley is a

Park Ranger Charlotte Stenger at Lake Barkley is a

Park Ranger Charlotte Stenger at Lake Barkley is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville district Co-Employee of the Month for June 2012.

Adam Walker (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Adam Walker (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Adam Walker (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, briefs Congressman Diane Black, Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District, on the projec... More

USACE-TVA 80-year partnership a definite plus for Cumberland, Tennessee Rivers Basin

USACE-TVA 80-year partnership a definite plus for Cumberland, Tennesse...

This aerial photo of the Kentucky Lock Addition project taken April 26, 2013, in Grand Rivers, Ky., shows construction of a new 1200-foot lock landward of the existing 600-foot lock and the relocated highway an... More

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2 (pronounced g minus two) is lowered in Kentucky Lock, Grand Rivers, Ky., July 16, 2013 on its circuitous journey from Long Island, N.Y. to Chicago. It is a ve... More

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand Rivers, Ky., shown here Aug. 14, 2013, with the 110-by-600-foot chamber dewatered. It is closed for scheduled maintenance repairs until noon Sept. 24, 2013. ... More

A view of the partially constructed Kentucky Lock Addition

A view of the partially constructed Kentucky Lock Addition

A view of the partially constructed Kentucky Lock Addition Project in Grand Rivers, Ky. The Corps is constructing a new navigation lock at Kentucky Dam to reduce the significant bottleneck that the 600-foot-lon... More

Jody Robinson, project engineer for the Kentucky Lock

Jody Robinson, project engineer for the Kentucky Lock

Jody Robinson, project engineer for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Office, gives a tour group a safety brief during a visit to the Kentucky Lock Addition construction site on July 22, 2014. The group is att... More

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, leads an unveiling ceremony of the first completed massive monolith from a viewpoint over the construction site in Grand Rivers, Ky., Jan. 28, ... More

Pathways were made at Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers,

Pathways were made at Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers,

Pathways were made at Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky., for personnel to keep navigation open at the lock on the Tennessee River. Lock Mechanic Bill Peek is credited with making it to the project and working... More

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, speaks during a commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of Barkley Dam at the Badgett Playhouse Theater in Grand Rivers, Ky... More

The family of Tony Ellisi unveils a new sign bearing

The family of Tony Ellisi unveils a new sign bearing

The family of Tony Ellisi unveils a new sign bearing his name. The US Highway 62 Bridge across the Tennessee River below Kentucky Dam was re-named in memory and in honor of former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers K... More

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, describes lock wall and valve operations to Col. Paul Kremer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division acting commander... More

Kentucky Lock’s first lift-in shell to be placed

Kentucky Lock’s first lift-in shell to be placed

Diagram of Public Viewing Designated Area at Kentucky Dam of placement of a 1.3-million-pound concrete shell Friday, Aug. 3, 2018 that will form a part of the downstream cofferdam for the new lock under constru... More

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry crane Aug. 2, 2018 downstream of Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor, Johnson Brothers, ... More

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project gives an overview about three of 10 partially placed concrete shells on the riverbed of the Tennessee River. These shells that will be placed o... More

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy (Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, presents a commander's coin for excellence to Ross Cunningham, lock and dam mechanic, during a visit to Bar... More

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Agency, demonstrate electrofishin... More

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commanding general; presents the U.S. Army Meritorious Civilian Service Medal to Lock Operator Joshua C. Mullins at Kentucky Lock in Gr... More

David Lambert, project manager with Fish Guidance Systems,

David Lambert, project manager with Fish Guidance Systems,

David Lambert, project manager with Fish Guidance Systems, and Jill Kelley, project manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District, watch as a crew prepares to install a section of the bio aco... More

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a commissioning ceremony for a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF sends a curtain of bubbles, sound and li... More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander,

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander,

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, Lt. Col. Sonny Avichal briefs U.S. Army Combat engineers from Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division at the Kentucky Lock Ad... More

Public input sought on 2020 draft Barkley Shoreline Management Plan

Public input sought on 2020 draft Barkley Shoreline Management Plan

The Lake Barkley Resource Manager’s Office invites the public to attend one of three public workshops and provide input concerning the upcoming Lake Barkley Shoreline Management Plan five-year review. (USACE Ph... More

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Operations

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Operations

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Operations Division personnel recently completed 100-ton Crane proficiency certification training at Barkley lock on Jan. 30, 2020.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Johnson Brothers place the final concrete shell on the riverbed of the Tennessee River Feb. 2, 2020 below Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. It... More

INDIAN MOUND, Tn. (Jul 21, 2020) Engineers from Fort

INDIAN MOUND, Tn. (Jul 21, 2020) Engineers from Fort

INDIAN MOUND, Tn. (Jul 21, 2020) Engineers from Fort Campbell, Ky., load their vehicles at the newly refurbished Lock C on the Cumberland River to deploy to the Joint Readiness Training Center in Fort, Polk La.... More

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham (Third from Left),

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham (Third from Left),

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham (Third from Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general for Civil and Emergency Operations, tours the inside of the completed intake valves on the upper end of the... More

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Craig Smith, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations Center, takes a momentary break from welding plates securing new tow haulage rail on Kentucky Lock wall Nov. 5, 2013. Nashville District employees comp... More

Congressman Diane Black of Tennessee’s 6th Congressional

Congressman Diane Black of Tennessee’s 6th Congressional

Congressman Diane Black of Tennessee’s 6th Congressional District is dwarfed by one of four 1940 vintage, 12-by-12-foot culvert valves replaced this summer at the existing Kentucky Lock. Black received informat... More

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers discuss

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers discuss

Kentucky Fish and Wildlife Conservation officers discuss the days events with Kentucky State Police Officers outside the Kentucky Emergency Management Response Mobile Command Post in Grand Rivers, Ky., May 5, 2... More

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident engineer, escorts Adrienne Gordon, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division, and Project Manager Adam Walker during a site visi... More

Jaime Holt (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant superintendent,

Jaime Holt (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant superintendent,

Jaime Holt (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant superintendent, uses a model to explain to visitors how the turbines work in hydropower generation at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District facility dur... More

Park Ranger Brian Mangrum at Cheatham Lake is a U.S.

Park Ranger Brian Mangrum at Cheatham Lake is a U.S.

Park Ranger Brian Mangrum at Cheatham Lake is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District Co-Employee of the Month for June 2012.

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2 (pronounced g minus two) enters Kentucky Lock, Grand Rivers, Ky., July 16, 2013 on its circuitous journey from Long Island, N.Y. to Chicago. It is a very powe... More

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand Rivers, Ky., shown here Aug. 14, 2013, with the 110-by-600-foot chamber dewatered. It is closed for scheduled maintenance repairs until noon Sept. 24, 2013. ... More

Maj. Christopher W. Burkhart, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer,

Maj. Christopher W. Burkhart, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer,

Maj. Christopher W. Burkhart, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer, Nashville District deputy district engineer, welcomes Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton to the Kentucky Lock Addition Project at Kentucky Lake Oct. 13, 2016.

(Left to right) Martin Lockard, Barry Arnett, Jody

(Left to right) Martin Lockard, Barry Arnett, Jody

(Left to right) Martin Lockard, Barry Arnett, Jody Robinson, Pat Ashley, Tony Ellis, Vanessa English, Mark Gibson and Master Sgt. Ronnie Pearson pose together Feb. 21, 2014, at Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky... More

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition briefs a large tour group about construction during a visit to the Kentucky Lock Addition construction site on July 22, 2014. The group is attending t... More

The last form is removed from the first completed massive

The last form is removed from the first completed massive

The last form is removed from the first completed massive monolith from a viewpoint over the construction site in Grand Rivers, Ky., Jan. 28, 2015. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contra... More

Judge Shea Nickell, Kentucky Court of Appeals, presents

Judge Shea Nickell, Kentucky Court of Appeals, presents

Judge Shea Nickell, Kentucky Court of Appeals, presents a framed historical portrait of Vice President Alben Barkley, the namesake of Barkley Dam, to Mike Looney, Lake Barkley Resource manager, to be hung in th... More

The US Highway 62 Bridge across the Tennessee River

The US Highway 62 Bridge across the Tennessee River

The US Highway 62 Bridge across the Tennessee River below Kentucky Dam has been re-named in memory and in honor of former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kentucky Lock resident engineer George A. (Tony) Ellis Tuesday.

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry

A 1.3 million pound concrete shell is moved to a gantry crane Aug. 2, 2018 downstream of Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor, Johnson Brothers, ... More

Barney Shulte, resident engineer for the Kentucky Lock

Barney Shulte, resident engineer for the Kentucky Lock

Barney Shulte, resident engineer for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project gives an overview about the project to members from the Marine Board members from the Transportation Research Board of The National Academ... More

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great

Maj. Gen. Mark Toy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, receives an update on a project to install an Asian Carp barrier on the downstream approach into Barkley Lock duri... More

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Agency, demonstrate electrofishin... More

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes

Maj. Gen. Robert F. Whittle Jr., USACE Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commanding general, and Kentucky Lock Operator Joshua C. Mullins pose with teammates and leaders after the general presented him the U.... More

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section of the bio acoustic fish fence Oct. 9, 2019 on the riverbed below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF is expected to be operational in a few weeks... More

Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, speaks

Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, speaks

Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, speaks during a commissioning ceremony for a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF sends a curtain of bubbles, sou... More

Mike Looney, Western Kentucky Operations Manager, explains

Mike Looney, Western Kentucky Operations Manager, explains

Mike Looney, Western Kentucky Operations Manager, explains locking procedures, recreation operations around Lake Barkley and Kentucky lock operations to combat engineers from Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Batt... More

A group of employees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

A group of employees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

A group of employees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Operations Division recently completed a required 100-ton Crane proficiency certification training at Barkley Lock Jan 30, 2020. (... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Johnson Brothers place the final concrete shell on the riverbed of the Tennessee River Feb. 2, 2020 below Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. It... More

GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) The “City of Louisville”

GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) The “City of Louisville”

GRAND RIVERS, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) The “City of Louisville” towboat pushes barges transporting military vehicles from Fort Campbell, Ky., through the Barkley Canal en route to the Joint Readiness Training Center ... More

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham, U.S. Army Corps

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham, U.S. Army Corps

Maj. Gen. William (Butch) H. Graham, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commanding general for Civil and Emergency Operations, overlooks ongoing construction of a cofferdam cell by a Johnson Brothers work crew at the... More

Kevin Phebus, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Kevin Phebus, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations

Kevin Phebus, Nashville District Tennessee River Operations Center, welds plates securing a new tow haulage rail on Kentucky Lock wall Nov. 5, 2013. Nashville District employees completed the Tow Haulage Unit R... More

Charlotte Stenger (Left), park ranger at U.S. Army

Charlotte Stenger (Left), park ranger at U.S. Army

Charlotte Stenger (Left), park ranger at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Lake Barkley, briefs visitors during their June 23, 2012 tour of the Barkley Power Plant. Public access to this area ha... More

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident

Tony Ellis (Left), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident engineer, and Jim Niznik, technical lead for the Tennessee Valley Authority, check on the progress of construction of the upstream lock monoliths at th... More

(Right to Left Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Bostick talks

(Right to Left Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Bostick talks

(Right to Left Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Thomas Bostick talks with Patty Coffee, Nashville District Deputy District Engineer, Lt. Col. Sonny Avichal (incoming District Engineer and Lt. Cullen Jones (current District Engi... More

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2

The 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring, Muon g-2 (pronounced g minus two) is lowered in Kentucky Lock, Grand Rivers, Ky., July 16, 2013 on its circuitous journey from Long Island, N.Y. to Chicago. It is a ve... More

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand Rivers, Ky., shown here Aug. 14, 2013, with the 110-by-600-foot chamber dewatered. It is closed for scheduled maintenance repairs until noon Sept. 24, 2013. ... More

Don Getty, project manager, for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager, for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager, for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project welcomed Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton and the 12 Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority board members to the Kentucky Lock Addi... More

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock

Adam Walker, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition, briefs a tour group about the construction during a visit to the Kentucky Lock Addition construction site on July 22, 2014. The group is attending th... More

The last form is removed from the first completed massive

The last form is removed from the first completed massive

The last form is removed from the first completed massive monolith from a viewpoint over the construction site in Grand Rivers, Ky., Jan. 28, 2015. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contra... More

Displays at the Grand Rivers, Ky., Community Center

Displays at the Grand Rivers, Ky., Community Center

Displays at the Grand Rivers, Ky., Community Center marked the history of Barkley Dam at the reception following the commemoration marking the 50th anniversary of Barkley Dam Aug. 20, 2016. (USACE photo by Mark Rankin)

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District commander, presents Debbie Ellis, wife of former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Kentucky Lock resident engineer George A. (Tony) Ellis with... More

A tow boat pulls out a barge after a gantry crane picked

A tow boat pulls out a barge after a gantry crane picked

A tow boat pulls out a barge after a gantry crane picked up a 1.3 million pound concrete shell Aug. 3, 2018 downstream of Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District a... More

Barges loaded with sand navigate through Kentucky Lock

Barges loaded with sand navigate through Kentucky Lock

Barges loaded with sand navigate through Kentucky Lock Jan. 9, 2019 on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Ky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the lock at the Tenness... More

Jamie Holt (Far Right), Barkley Power Project

Jamie Holt (Far Right), Barkley Power Project

Jamie Holt (Far Right), Barkley Power Project superintendent, leads Maj. Gen. Mark Toy (Far Left), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Great Lakes and Ohio River Division commander, on a tour of Barkley Dam in Grand R... More

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist;

(Left to right) Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; and Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, demonstrate electrofishing for A... More

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section

Fish Guidance Systems crew prepares to install a section of the bio acoustic fish fence Oct. 9, 2019 on the riverbed below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF is expected to be operational in a few weeks... More

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Left) and

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Left) and

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Left) and Congressman James Comer, Kentucky 1st District, congratulate each other after McConnell initiated a button to commission a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019 ... More

Deep inside the Kentucky Lock Addition project, Nashville

Deep inside the Kentucky Lock Addition project, Nashville

Deep inside the Kentucky Lock Addition project, Nashville District employees and Combat engineers of Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division, pause for a group photo during a tour at t... More

Darryl Henry a mechanic, with the U.S. Army Corps of

Darryl Henry a mechanic, with the U.S. Army Corps of

Darryl Henry a mechanic, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District, Operations Division operates a 100-ton crane as part of proficiency certification training at Barkley lock Jan. 31, 2020.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Johnson Brothers place the final concrete shell on the riverbed of the Tennessee River Feb. 2, 2020 below Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. It... More

KENTUCKY LOCK, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) A helper boat assists

KENTUCKY LOCK, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) A helper boat assists

KENTUCKY LOCK, Ky. (Jul 22, 2020) A helper boat assists the towboat “City of Louisville” with barges loaded with military vehicles from Fort Campbell, Ky., as the tow transits the Kentucky Lock en route to the ... More

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate dirt and rock at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Dec. 16, 2020 at Grand Rivers, Kentucky, where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District i... More

Park rangers Kayl Kite (far left), and Charlotte Stenger

Park rangers Kayl Kite (far left), and Charlotte Stenger

Park rangers Kayl Kite (far left), and Charlotte Stenger (far right), prepare to board a bus with this tour group after visiting the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Lake Barkley Power Plant Ju... More

Dallas Barfield, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Dallas Barfield, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville

Dallas Barfield, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lock operator at Kentucky Lock, Grand Rivers, Ky., closely watches his monitor July 16, 2013 as motor vessel “Miss Katie” and its tow with the 50... More

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand

Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River Mile 22.4 in Grand Rivers, Ky., shown here Aug. 14, 2013, with the 110-by-600-foot chamber dewatered. It is closed for scheduled maintenance repairs until noon Sept. 24, 2013. ... More

Mark Gibson, an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of

Mark Gibson, an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of

Mark Gibson, an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Nashville District briefs Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton during a tour at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project

Brian Jones (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant mechanic,

Brian Jones (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant mechanic,

Brian Jones (left), Lake Barkley Power Plant mechanic, answers questions from Dave and Judy Kamper, from Ripon, Calif. The two are a part of a tour group attending the HydroVision conference in Nashville, Tenn.... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District continues its construction efforts on the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Jan. 28, 2015, in Grand Rivers, Ky. The Corps and its contractor, Thalle Construction... More

Tony Ellis (Right), Kentucky Lock Addition Project

Tony Ellis (Right), Kentucky Lock Addition Project

Tony Ellis (Right), Kentucky Lock Addition Project resident engineer, updates Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander and chief of engineers, during the general's visit to the Kentucky... More

Mike O'Leary (Right) shares an "Official Plug Puller"

Mike O'Leary (Right) shares an "Official Plug Puller"

Mike O'Leary (Right) shares an "Official Plug Puller" certificate given to his father Bob at the dedication of Barkley Dam 50 years ago with Lt. Col. Stephen Murphy, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville Distr... More

Barney Schulte, technical engineer for Kentucky Lock

Barney Schulte, technical engineer for Kentucky Lock

Barney Schulte, technical engineer for Kentucky Lock Addition Project, checks specifications for the gantry crane lift system in preparation for the movement of a 1.3 million pound concrete shell Aug. 4, 2018 i... More

John Tribble (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

John Tribble (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

John Tribble (Right), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District mechanical engineer, and Lt. Col. Cullen Jones (Left), Nashville District commander, address status of crane repairs at Barkley Dam with Maj... More

(Left to right) Nathan Rister, fisheries technician;

(Left to right) Nathan Rister, fisheries technician;

(Left to right) Nathan Rister, fisheries technician; Andrew Porterfield, fisheries technician; Josh Tompkins, fisheries biologist; and Matt Combs, fisheries biologist; Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife R... More

Fish Guidance Systems crew installs a section of the

Fish Guidance Systems crew installs a section of the

Fish Guidance Systems crew installs a section of the bio acoustic fish fence into the water Oct. 9, 2019 below Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. The BAFF is expected to be operational in a few weeks, and a fiel... More

Bubbles reach the surface of the Cumberland River on

Bubbles reach the surface of the Cumberland River on

Bubbles reach the surface of the Cumberland River on the downstream side of Barkley Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky., during a commissioning ceremony for a bio-acoustic fish fence Nov. 8, 2019. The BAFF sends a curtai... More

A group of Soldiers from Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer

A group of Soldiers from Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer

A group of Soldiers from Fort Campbell’s 326th Engineer Battalion, 101st Airborne Division watch a barge lock through at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project in Grand Rivers, Ky.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and contractor Johnson Brothers place the final concrete shell on the riverbed of the Tennessee River Feb. 2, 2020 below Kentucky Lock in Grand Rivers, Ky. It... More

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate

Work crews with Heeter Geotechnical Construction excavate dirt and rock at the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Dec. 16, 2020 at Grand Rivers, Kentucky, where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District i... More

Visitors in left background observe one fuel barge

Visitors in left background observe one fuel barge

Visitors in left background observe one fuel barge easing alongside another to pass through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Lake Barkley Lock together June 23, 2012. Public access to this ... More

This is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

This is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

This is U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District lock operator Dallas Barfields’ camera view as motor vessel “Miss Katie” and its tow with the 50-foot electromagnetic particle ring Muon g-2 exit Kentucky... More

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition

Don Getty, project manager for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project, leads Kentucky Lt. Gov. Jenean Hampton and 12 board members from the Tennessee Tombigbee Waterway Development Authority on a tour at the Kentuc... More

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District continues its construction efforts on the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Jan. 28, 2015, in Grand Rivers, Ky. The Corps and its contractor, Thalle Construction... More

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