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Barnhart crew members use a hydraulic power system to lift a prefabricated wall beam onto a barge for delivery to the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project’s upstream approach wall contract near Watts Bar Dam Aug. 28, 2025. (USACE photo by Noe Gonzalez)

Massive wall beams moved to Chickamauga Lock

After more than a decade in storage, 120-foot-long concrete wall beams—each weighing more than 463 tons—are finally on the move. On Friday, August 29, the Nashville Engineer District began transporting the first