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The New Orleans Engineer District will begin a 60-day closure at Algiers Lock on October 2 to repair damage incurred in a July 4 allision. On Independence Day, a towing vessel was pushing a loaded barge into the lock chamber from the Mississippi River, bound for the Gulf Intracoast-al Waterway (GIWW), when it struck the lock's canal-end sector gates, piercing the south-side sector gate's skin and damaging its structural steel frame. Corps officials surveyed the damage and, shortly thereafter, applied for emergency funding totaling $6.4 million. "The funding came quick and easy, which was a relief," said Victor Landry, operations project manager for the New Orleans District's GIWW structures. |