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Justin Murphree, operations project manager for the Mobile Engineer District's Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, hosted a conference call April 5 with waterway stakeholders to outline a pair of lock closures planned for later this year and to gather input for when to schedule the work. The maintenance closures will take place at Glover Wilkins Lock near Smithville, Miss., and at the next lock below that, Thad Cochran Lock, in Amory, Miss. Work at both locks, Murphree said, will be pretty standard, with inspections, sandblasting and painting, gate painting and crack repair planned. At Wilkins, work will include resurfacing miter and quoin blocks, while at Cochran Lock, the Corps will need to replace the blocks at the lower end of the lock. Thirty-day closures are planned for both Wilkins and Cochran locks. Mur- phree said he is optimistic that the work at Wilkins could wrap up sooner than that, although replacing the miter and quoin blocks at Cochran makes an early finish there less likely. |