April 19, 2013 - Congressman Hal Rogers gives keynote address at the Wolf Creek Dam Barrier Wall Completion Ceremony at Russell Springs Auditorium. It took more than five years of continuous construction work to complete the $594 million dam safety major rehabilitation. The barrier wall was designed to effectively cut off all seepage paths from Lake Cumberland.
Aug. 18, 2013 - Nashville District's personnel celebrate the district's 125th Anniversary, which occurred Sunday, Aug. 18, 2013, on Friday, Aug. 16, 2013, with food and festivities at the headquarters. Michael Zoccola threw out the first pitch Aug. 18, 2013 at the Nashville Sounds baseball game.
Sept. 17, 2013 - Local, state and federal partners kicked off Silver Jackets at the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency Headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Tennessee officially becomes the 40th state to join the program that provides a formal, consistent and unified approach to planning and implementing measures to reduce the risks associated with flooding and other natural hazards. Photo: James Bassham, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency director, welcomes state and federal participants.
June 16, 2014 - The History Channel show "10 Things You Didn't Know About" films at Center Hill Dam where the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is working to remediate the foundation of the dam. The show's host Henry Rollins featured Resident Engineer Bill DeBruyn on the episode.
July 22, 2014 - Lt. Gen. Thomas Bostick, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander and 53rd chief of engineers, visits the Center Hill Dam Foundation Remediation Project where the Nashville District is installing a subsurface concrete barrier wall through the earthen embankment to stop seepage through the karst geology. The Corps constructed Center Hill Dam in the 1940s. The project is located in Lancaster, Tennessee, on the Caney Fork River, a tributary of the Cumberland River.
Aug. 27, 2014 - The Oak Ridge Boys want their fans to know that life jackets are life savers. The group harmonized this very important water safety message Aug. 27, 2014 for visitors of Corps of Engineers lakes during an engagement at the Nashville Sounds' last game ever at Greer Stadium.
Aug. 28, 2014 - Crystal Gayle wants her fans to play it safe when it comes to water safety. She visited the Country Music Hall of Fame Aug. 28, 2014 where she encouraged everyone to be safe swimming and boating, and to wear a life jacket when recreating on Corps of Engineers lakes.
Sept. 5, 2014 - Actors Connie Britton, who plays Rayna James, and Will Chase, who plays Luke Wheeler, shoot a segment for a future episode of the ABC hit show "Nashville" at Old Hickory Lake, which is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District.
Sept. 23, 2014 - Federal, state and local agencies formalized an official partnership to promote flood risk reduction by signing the Tennessee Silver Jackets Charter during a ceremony at Metro Nashville’s Development Services Center. Tennessee is the 40th state to form a Silver Jackets Program, which is an innovative partnership where its members collaborate on the state's flood risk management priorities.
Sept. 29, 2014 - Tainter gates bound for the Olmstead Dam Project on the Ohio River pass through Kentucky Lock at Tennessee River mile 22.4 in Grand Rivers, Ky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District operates and maintains the lock at the Tennessee Valley Authority project.
Jan. 28, 2015 - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District placed concrete to top-out the first massive concrete monolith for the Kentucky Lock Addition project this past week, and held a ceremony to mark the occasion Jan. 28, 2015. The Corps is constructing a new 1,200-foot-long navigation lock at Kentucky Dam on the Tennessee River to reduce the significant bottleneck that the 600-foot-long current lock causes on this important waterway.
Feb. 6, 2015 - Thirty years after the dedication of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, officials cut another ribbon dedicating a museum that provides education outreach and features the value of transportation within the historical inland passageway built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1972 to 1984. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway is the largest civil works project ever constructed in the United States. The Mobile and Nashville Districts built the 234-mile waterway.
April 17, 2015 - Country Music Legend Tanya Tucker shoots a water safety public service announcement in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District. She encouraged fans to be safe and to wear a life jacket. Tucker is a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame. She was the Top New Female Vocalist as a teenager in 1972 and first female country artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine in 1974.
March 18, 2015 - Officials celebrated the completion of a barrier wall in the main dam embankment of Center Hill Dam during a ceremony at the work platform on top of the dam. The $115 million foundation barrier wall is a key component of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District’s Center Hill Dam Safety Remediation Project. Work to install the barrier wall began in 2012. It is 2.5-feet thick and as deep as 308 feet from the top of the dam and deep into the solid-rock foundation.
Aug. 9, 2015 - Motor Vessel Mississippi exits Guntersville Lock on the Tennessee River with the Mississippi River Commission. They also navigated the Cumberland River to visit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and Tennessee Valley Authority projects, inspect the waterways, and use the experience to improve the condition of the Mississippi River Basin, foster navigation, promote commerce, and reduce flood risk.
Oct. 7, 2015 - Work crews lifted a turbine out of hydropower unit two at Center Hill Dam, one of the final pieces of the disassembly process. It is the first time the 82-ton steel wheel has seen the light of day since its installation in 1950, a rare sight that makes it possible to inspect, rebuild embedded parts, and then reassemble the unit with new components. The hydropower unit is the first of 28 units at nine Nashville District projects that will be rehabilitated over the next 20 years.
Oct. 19, 2015 - Country Music Recording Group “LoCash” shoots a water safety public service announcement urging fans to be safe when recreating on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers waterways with the “I Love This Life Jacket” message, a spinoff from the title of their smash hit “I Love This Life.” Chris Lucas and Preston Brust of LoCash said they are very appreciative of their fans and feel blessed by the group’s recent success with “I Love This Life.”
June 7, 2016 - The nation’s chief of engineers visits three high visibility construction projects to meet employees and garner the very latest updates from project managers and team members. Lt. Gen. Todd T. Semonite, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers commander, hopped on a Tennessee National Guard Blackhawk to travel between the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project and Kentucky Lock Addition Project in the Nashville District, and the Olmsted Locks and Dam Project in the Louisville District.
Aug. 3, 2016 - The congressman serving Tennessee District 3, who serves on the House Committee on Appropriations and the Energy and Water Subcommittee, dons a pair of rubber boots to get a close look at the dewatered Chickamauga Lock on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann trekked through the grit, grime and shallow pools of water in the 60-foot by 360-foot lock to interact with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District team that has been inspecting and making repairs.
Feb. 28, 2017 - Douglas W. Lamont, senior official performing duties of secretary of the Army for Civil Works toured Chickamauga Lock in Chattanooga, Tenn., to realize the challenges of keeping a deteriorated lock open while racing against time to construct a replacement lock.
Aug. 21, 2017 - The public flocked to see the Total Eclipse at designated viewing areas at dams and recreation areas at Lake Barkley in Kentucky, and Cheatham Lake, Old Hickory Lake, J. Percy Priest Lake, Cordell Hull Lake, Dale Hollow Lake, and Center Hill Lake in Tennessee.
Sept. 11, 2017 - Nashville District personnel who responded to the 2016 Federal Employee Survey found out today that their high marks for job and organizational satisfaction resulted in a “Best Place to Work in USACE Award” from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters. Maj. Christopher Burkhart, Nashville District deputy commander, showed off the award certificate during staff meeting and lauded everyone for participating in the survey that enhances a culture of engagement and two-way feedback.
June 29, 2018 - Community leaders celebrated the 50th Anniversary of J. Percy Priest Dam and Reservoir, acknowledging the project’s positive impact since President Lyndon B. Johnson dedicated it. Mayor David Briley said that two million citizens continue to enjoy the benefits the lake provides, which his grandfather Beverly Briley championed as first mayor of Metro Nashville when the Corps constructed the dam in the 1960s. The project honors Congressman James Percy Priest.
Aug. 6, 2018 - Nashville District successfully placed the first of 10 concrete shells on the riverbed that will be part of the downstream cofferdam and the permanent downstream lock wall for the Kentucky Lock Addition Project. This 46-foot wide by 51-foot long by 33-foot high shell weighed 1.3 million pounds. A tow boat moved the barge with the concrete shell into position underneath the gantry crane.
Oct. 19, 2018 - Officials unveil a state of Tennessee Historical Marker recognizing the significance of Dale Hollow Dam and Powerhouse, and Reservoir during the 75th Anniversary Commemoration of Dale Hollow Dam and Reservoir. (Left to Right) Eddie Clark, regional field services director for Tennessee Farm Bureau Federation; his mother Katherine Terry Clark, 92; Lt. Cullen Jones, commander; and Stanley Carter, Dale Hollow Dam Power Plant superintendent unveil the marker.
Nov. 14, 2019 - Honorable R.D. James, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, visited the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project for an opportunity to gauge the progress of the project and meet Nashville District leadership, project personnel, Tennessee Valley Authority partners, and stakeholders. James establishes policy and direction and provides supervision of all aspects of the Corps of Engineers’ Civil Works Program.
July 1, 2020 - Officials celebrated completion of the last phase of repairs for the $353 million Center Hill Dam Safety Rehabilitation Project where the Corps of Engineers finished constructing a roller compacted concrete berm to reinforce the auxiliary dam at Center Hill Lake, a secondary earthen embankment that fills a low area in the landscape just east of the main dam.
Feb. 3, 2021 - Lt. Gen. Scott Spellmon, 55th chief of engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, visited Chickamauga Lock and the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project where the Nashville District is constructing the new 110-by-600-foot navigation lock at the Tennessee Valley Authority project at Tennessee River mile 471 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
May 18, 2021 - The Motor Vessel John Wepfer delivers two 90-ton transformers May 18, 2021 to the Barkley Dam Powerplant on the Cumberland River in Kuttawa, Kentucky. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is replacing the transformers in the switchyard that have been in service since 1971.
May 21, 2021 - Motor Vessel Tampa out of Ashland, Kentucky, moves Marathon Petroleum Company fuel barges May 21, 2021, through Cheatham Lock in Ashland City, Tennessee, headed to terminals in Nashville. With the shutdown of the Colonial Pipeline, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District opened up Cheatham Lock during scheduled maintenance so barges destined to fuel Middle Tennessee could navigate up the Cumberland River. Each barge carries around 28,000 barrels of fuel.
May 22, 2023 - Shimmick Crane Operator Patrick Harrison lifted the last concrete form from monolith L13 to mark the official completion of the first of 36 monoliths. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District and its contractor, Shimmick, held a topping-off ceremony May 22, 2023, at the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
July 19, 2023 - The Inland Waterways Users Board checks on the progress of the Kentucky Lock Addition Project July 19, 2023, on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Kentucky. The ongoing construction can be seen on the left while the active navigation lock miter gates are visible on the right. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Nashville District is constructing a larger lock at the Tennessee Valley Authority dam.
Oct. 7, 2023 - Congressman. John Rose, Tennessee 6th District, gives the keynote address while addressing guests during the dam’s 50th Anniversary celebration Oct. 7, 2023, on the shoreline below the dam in Elmwood, Tennessee. He noted that celebrating the achievements of the engineers and the contractors, and public policy makers of the time, made this project possible.
Oct. 12, 2023 - Michael L. Connors, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, visited the Chickamauga Lock Replacement Project Oct. 12, 2023, on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Oct. 12, 2023 - Michael L. Connors, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, visited the Kentucky Lock Addition Project Oct. 12, 2023, on the Tennessee River in Grand Rivers, Kentucky.
Oct. 12, 2023 - Michael L. Connors, assistant secretary of the Army for Civil Works, visited the Barkley Dam Powerhouse Oct. 13, 2023, on the Tennessee River in Kuttawa, Kentucky.