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Navigation lock leading into New Orleans harbor rests on 5,900 piles
New lock near Algiers is 75 × 760 ft, and will be equipped with sector type gates; lock structure, together with appurtenant navigation channel, bridges, drainage structures, and utility modifications, will be complete in 1952 at cost of $13,000, 000; two Diesel powered draglines with drop hammers and leads drove piles for lock chamber, gate bay, and steel sheetpile cutoff walls.
Navigation lock leading into New Orleans harbor rests on 5,900 piles
New lock near Algiers is 75 × 760 ft, and will be equipped with sector type gates; lock structure, together with appurtenant navigation channel, bridges, drainage structures, and utility modifications, will be complete in 1952 at cost of $13,000, 000; two Diesel powered draglines with drop hammers and leads drove piles for lock chamber, gate bay, and steel sheetpile cutoff walls.
Navigation lock leading into New Orleans harbor rests on 5,900 piles
Civ Eng (NY)
Hudson, G.H. (author)
1950
Article (Journal)
English
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