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原文传递 Barge Breaks Away On The Tenn-Tom, Strikes Spillway At Stennis Lock And Dam

题名：	Barge Breaks Away On The Tenn-Tom, Strikes Spillway At Stennis Lock And Dam
正文语种：	eng
作者：	FRANK MCCORMACK
摘要：	A barge loaded with 1,600 tons of rock salt broke away from its mooring at the Port of Clay County near West Point, Miss., on the Tennessee-Tom-bigbee Waterway overnight June 9-10. The barge floated downriver on the Tenn-Tom, swollen from recent rains, and struck the spillway at the John C. Stennis Lock & Dam, blocking three of the five spillway gates. "Last night at approximately midnight we had a hopper barge get loose above Stennis Lock," Justin Murphree, operations project manager for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, said on a June 10 call with waterway stakeholders. The barge struck gate two at the five- gate spillway, Murphree said, "then flattened out across three and four." The barge sank about 2 a.m. "It's surely constricting the flow to gates three and four and part of gate two," Murphree said. "Gate two is operating but damaged." As a result, the Mobile Engineer District's Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project Management Office closed the lock to navigation later that morning, Murphree said. The closure was not due to any damage to the lock from the barge. Rather, the Corps was operating the lock as a spillway bypass to help pass flood waters in the waterway.
出版年：	2021
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	135
期：	11