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Navigation Model Studies of New Ohio River Locks
The major program of modernizing navigation facilities on the Ohio River and its tributaries involves replacement of the obsolete and inadequate system of low-lift, movable-wicket dams and small locks with a smaller number of relatively high, gated dams, including greatly expanded locking facilities suitable for handling modern tows. This paper describes the successful utilization of hydraulic models to investigate navigation conditions that will be encountered at the new locks and dams. Several model studies have been and are being used to develop optimum locations and arrangements of the locks and dams and appurtenant structures, as well as methods of operation of the dam gates, that will insure the elimination of hazardous or difficult navigation conditions for tows entering or leaving the locks.
Navigation Model Studies of New Ohio River Locks
The major program of modernizing navigation facilities on the Ohio River and its tributaries involves replacement of the obsolete and inadequate system of low-lift, movable-wicket dams and small locks with a smaller number of relatively high, gated dams, including greatly expanded locking facilities suitable for handling modern tows. This paper describes the successful utilization of hydraulic models to investigate navigation conditions that will be encountered at the new locks and dams. Several model studies have been and are being used to develop optimum locations and arrangements of the locks and dams and appurtenant structures, as well as methods of operation of the dam gates, that will insure the elimination of hazardous or difficult navigation conditions for tows entering or leaving the locks.
Navigation Model Studies of New Ohio River Locks
Fortson, Eugene P. (author) / Fenwick, George B. (author)
Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 126 ; 171-183
2021-01-01
131961-01-01 pages
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