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 13, 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
crest gates 2/18/2003 2:32:26 PM
installing crest gate # 9 at the Nav Pass
Navigable Pass 2/18/2003 1:24:42 PM
Conduit and control panels in navigable pass gallery.
Navigable Pass 2/18/2003 1:23:12 PM
Local control panel for crest gate operation in navigable pass gallery.
Revetment 2.0R 2/18/2003 12:50:34
Dragline cutting down spoil to elevation 130.0 and depositing it into the White River for the Dredge Boat Bill Holman to pick up.

Navigable Pass 2/13/2003 11:05:52 AM
Area still needing to be filled with R5000.
Scour slab 2/13/2003 11:05:16 AM
R5000 placed along scour slab downstream of the navigable pass.
O & M Area 2/13/2003 11:01:42 AM
Placing compacted pervious fill in O & M Work Area. Placing anchoring rods in O&M work area.
Revetment 2.0R 2/13/2003 10:45:04 AM
Dredge operating at or about STA. 55+00

Revetment 2.0R 2/13/2003 10:44:16 AM
Crane being made ready to crawl on to barge.

Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:24:30 AM
Cofferdam from downstream north bank.
Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:22:44 AM
Cofferdam from downstream
Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:19:34 AM
Cofferdam from north bank.
Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:18:14 AM
Cofferdam from upstream.
Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:16:28 AM
Cofferdam from upstream.
Aerial February 2003 2/12/2003 10:13:46 AM
Cofferdam from south bank.
Nav Pass 2/11/2003 2:20:56 PM
Completed baffle blocks
Nav Pass 2/10/2003 1:56:36 PM
Crest gate bearing placement on Nav Pass
Control Tower 2/7/2003 1:53:08 PM
To 196 looking downstream

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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