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A barge broke away from its mooring above Tom Bevill Lock & Dam on the Ten-nessee-Tombigbee Waterway in the overnight hours June 11-12, floating downstream and striking the spillway at about 3 a.m. The barge is blocking one of the spillway gates, preventing Corps of Engineers lock operators from closing the gate. Big River Shipbuilders' salvage team has a pair of towboats and a pair of crane barges on site as of June 17 to begin salvage operations. Justin Murphree, operations project manager for the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Project, said the bow of the barge is partially sheared off. If the salvage team is unable to pull the barge off the spillway intact, crew members will have to cut the bow off. Murphree said he's hopeful it will be a quick operation. "I'm hoping that thing's out by the end of the day tomorrow, if not this evening," Murphree said June 17. |