Mobile Engineer District News Today

WTWA annual meeting attendees celebrated the reopening of Demopolis Lock, exactly four months after a sill collapsed forced its closure.

The Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway Association (WTWA) will hold its annual conference at Perdido Beach Resort in Orange Beach, Ala., May 15-17.

Workers completed the first of seven concrete pours April 11 as part of the project to repair Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River.

Bridge and lock closures are bedeviling operators on the Black Warrior River and Gulf Intracoastal Waterway.

The effort to repair Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River in Alabama has entered a new phase, now that debris removal is complete.

A bearing failed in an upper sector gear at Thad Cochran Lock, causing a short outage north of the long-term Demopolis Lock closure.

The Mobile Engineer District is marching ahead with repair work at Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River, near Demopolis, Ala.

The Mobile Engineer District’s maintenance fleet arrived at Demopolis Lock on February 2 to begin a months-long repair project.

Demopolis Lock on the Tombigbee River, closed since January 16, will probably remain out of service until at least May, the Corps said.

Plans for repairing Demopolis Lock following a gate sill failure are complicated by access problems and the threat of high water.