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I'm Colonel Jeremy Chapman , the Mobile

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District Corps of Engineers Commander ,

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and I'm here at Holt Lock and Dam where

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today we're putting in a bulkhead

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railing system on the culvert in order

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to be able to dewater the culvert in

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the valve area and relieve some of the

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valve pressure that's causing the

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instability on Monolith 14 , which you

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see behind me where the workers are

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working here and also where you see the

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lock house and gallery that's below

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where the main cracking is occurring .

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Today , I visited the fabrication site

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at Western Alabama Mechanical and

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visited a great local business that's

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helping us to get this work done .

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They're doing a great job , fantastic

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job putting together what would be a 40

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or 50 ton gate system or bulkhead that

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they're putting together in three

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pieces . They'll ship that up here and

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we're going to slide it into the

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bulkhead slots that we're installing

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today with the crane here . Crane Choc

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Towai our plant here that , that we're

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working today . We have eight divers on

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site that are gonna be working two or

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three hour shifts , bolting this guide

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rail to the wall in front of the

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culvert that's gonna cut the leakage

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that's going in between this monolith

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that you see behind us and is causing

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the instability when we do the locks .

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This is a very important project for

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the mobile district . Uh We're , we're

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doing this under emergency operations .

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As I said , uh the the fabrication shop

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is working 2 10 hour shifts and here

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they're working multiple shifts into

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the evening as well to get this work

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done . We're hoping that this temporary

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bulkhead solution will be completed by

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the end of this month , September and

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that we will be back into operation or

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some limited operation at the lock for

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industry . Uh The first part of October ,

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I really wanna give a shout out thanks

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to a lot of folks that are working this

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and making this happen , making these

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solutions and delivering these

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solutions for our customers in the

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nation . Our operations division , our

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engineering division has set folks out

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here are uh partners that have , that

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have been with us throughout this and

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as well as our industry , which we've

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been partnered with very tightly to

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make sure the communication is good

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throughout both the tow , the tow barge

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industry , as well as the industry that

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are above the lock that are not able to

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get their product to market .