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CAPTION TEXT Photos 169, 171,
2502-67, 2502-68, 2502-70: Aerial views of Kentucky Lock with barge traffic
waiting to transit downstream to markets on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Products from
20 states pass through Kentucky Lock. |
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2502-69: Aerial views of Kentucky Lock, with new lock location in
yellow, looking downstream. The delay times for tows using Kentucky
Lock have increased from 3 hours in 1991 to more than 6.5 hours in
1997. The proposed new lock, measuring 110 feet by 1200 feet adjacent
and landward of the existing lock, will help solve this problem. |
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Photo 66: An artist concept
of a new lock at Kentucky Lake and Dam landward of the existing 600 foot lock. This
rendition was completed for the 1992 Feasibility report and does not represent the latest
changes. The rendition shows nine electrical transmission towers when, in fact, there are
seven. The bridge placement locations have also been modified since the initial sketch was
prepared. |
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170: A bird’s eye view of Kentucky Dam and Lock with the resulting
lake to the right. Approximately 44 million tons of cargo passed
through the lock last year and that number is expected to grow
dramatically over the next few years. |
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Photo 2502-24: Aerial
view of both Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley and the Canal that connects the two reservoirs
at Eddyville, Kentucky. Photo is taken upriver of the two dams and shows Kentucky Lock and
Dam (left) and Barkley Lock and Dam (right). The Canal connects the Cumberland River
(right) with the Tennessee River just before those two bodies of water flow into the Ohio
and permit barges to transit either lock. Kentucky Lake is operated by the Tennessee
Valley Authority and Barkley Lake is managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. |
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Kentucky Lock Navigation
Model
A 1:100 scale Navigation
Model was constructed at the Waterways Experiment Station in
Vicksburg, MS to investigate navigation conditions in the lower lock
approach for a distance of two miles downstream of the dam.
Construction of the model was completed in April 1999. The model
includes a scaled version of the spillway, powerhouse and existing
lock. Currently, base or existing conditions testing is ongoing. This
information will be used as a comparison to conditions after the 1200’
Lock addition is in place. In addition to navigation, the model will
be used to evaluate several environmental issues associated with the
new lock and required railroad and highway bridge relocations.
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Picture # 9905-04:
View looking upstream
toward Kentucky Lock and Dam from a point approximately one mile
downstream of I-24(prototype scale or fifty feet in the model scale).
The color scheme is as follows: blue ranges from streambed up to
elevation 302, yellow from 302 to 344 and green above 344. |
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Picture #9905-05:
View looking downstream
from above the headbay, showing the original upstream cofferdam and
old railroad coffer cells downstream of the dam. Model duplicates
approximately two miles of the Tennessee River. |
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