Holt Lock will be 110 ft wide, 670 ft long, and will provide maximum lift of 63.6 ft; tests were conducted in 1 to 25-scale model of filling and emptying system to determine its adequacy and relative merits of interlaced and split floor lateral arrangements; tests also were conducted in 1 to 15-scale model of one of 12.5× 12. 5-ft culvert valves to develop optimum valve design from standpoint of loads on valve hoisting mechanism; lock filling and emptying system will consist of single port intakes and outlets in river side of riverwall, longitudinal culvert in each wall, and interlaced floor laterals in lock chamber.
Lock filling and emptying system, Holt Lock and Dam Warrior river, Alabama
U S Waterways Experiment Station -- Tech Report
1965
119 pages
Report
English
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