Montgomery Point Lock and Dam
Contract No. DACW03-97-C-0025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Little Rock District



These photographs were taken of construction activities on-going at the Montgomery Point Lock and Dam work site. The project is located on the White River at N.M. 0.5 of the McClellan-Kerr Arkansas River Navigation System. The prime contractor is J.A. Jones/Atkinson-Constructors, A Joint Venture. The contract amount is approximately $195,000,000. The scheduled completion date for the project is January 6, 2003.



The work consists of construction of a new lock, gated spillway, overflow spillway, control tower, mooring area, diversion channel, channel revetments and dikes, control tower, and mooring area. The structure consists of a 110-foot-wide by 600-foot-long (usable dimension) miter-gated U-frame lock, 524-foot-long concrete floating guide walls, a 300-foot-wide bottom lift hinged-crest gated navigable pass concrete spillway (including ten 30-foot-wide gates), and a 200-foot-wide fixed crest concrete overflow spillway.





Job Montgomery Point Lock & Dam
Job Number mpld
Description Construction

Photo Caption Description
R-22 8/29/2002 3:41:34 PM
R-22 final lift prior to placement
Col. Crear Visit 8/28/2002 10:10:28 AM
Visit by COL (P) Crear, SWD Commander; COL Butler, SWL Commander; and MAJ Brown, SWL Deputy Commander.
R-5000 Rip Rap placement 8/27/2002 3:15:18 PM
R-500 Rip Rap placement downstream end of lock
Centerline/general shots 8/27/2002 2:57:10 PM
Centerline/general shots
Overflow Structure looking upstream
Centerline/general shots 8/27/2002 2:36:46 PM
Centerline/general shots
Centerline of lock looking upstream
Navigable Pass 8/21/2002 2:47:52 PM
Navigable Pass
Applying Champion QX Grease to Bearing Housing-base plate.
Miter Gate 8/21/2002 8:15:36 AM
US RS Miter Gate/2nd section
Mooring Cell 8/20/2002 11:59:44 PM
Placing concrete in Mooring Cell with Crane & Bucket.
Navigation Pass 8/20/2002 6:33:42 PM
Placing concrete in Monolith R-22, lift 11.
Floating Guide Wall 8/20/2002 2:55:04 PM
Form work / leveling slab for Keel Slab
L-22 8/19/2002 11:23:26 AM
L-22-7 prior to placement
Miter Gate 8/19/2002 11:20:08 AM
US LS Miter Gate
Miter Gate 8/19/2002 11:15:24 AM
Miter Gate
Centerline/general shots 8/16/2002 1:11:28 PM
Centerline/general shots
CL Lock looking US
Aerial August 02 8/6/2002 6:54:46 AM
Cofferdam from north bank.
Aerial August 02 8/6/2002 6:54:18 AM
Cofferdam from downstream.
Aerial Aug 02 8/6/2002 6:53:26 AM
Cofferdam from upstream
Aerial Aug 02 8/6/2002 6:46:42 AM
Cofferdam from south bank
Aerial August 02 8/6/2002 6:45:22 AM
Cofferdam from downstream.
Mooring Cell 8/5/2002 7:54:38 PM
Placing compacted fill in Mooring Cell with Creter Crane.
Lock 8/5/2002 7:16:00 AM
CL Lock looking DS
Navigable Pass 8/5/2002 7:12:44 AM
Nav Pass & Dam looking US

Photographs were taken by:

Montgomery Point Lock and Dam Resident Office
35B Wild Goose Lane
Tichnor, Arkansas 72166
Phone: 870-548-3300
FAX: 870-548-2103

and

J.A. Jones/Atkinson-Constructors
P.O. Box 849
Rosedale, Mississippi 38769
Phone: 662-759-9891
FAX: 662-759-9807

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