Channel Maintenance Dredging Below Olmsted Locks and Dam, Ohio River Mile 965-974

Channel Maintenance Dredging Below Olmsted Locks and Dam, Ohio River Mile 965-974

Notice Number: 201211
Date: 8/18/22 thru 9/12/22

Notice is given that “Luhrs Bros., Inc” will commence maintenance dredging below Olmsted Locks and Dam, Ohio River Mile 965 - 974. Dredging operations will be conducted from approximately 18 August – 12 September 2022, 24 hours per day, seven days per week. During this period, the Dredge Bill Holman will be in or adjacent to the navigation channel, allowing traffic to pass without interruption. The federal mooring cells at Ohio River Mile 966 will be unavailable 18-21 August 2022. Contact the Dredge Bill Holman for passing instruction on marine channel 13. Once contact has been made with the Dredge Bill Holman, proceed at the slowest safe speed.

The contractor’s floating plant will consist of the Dredge Bill Holman, M/V’s LENARD and BUDDY, and the ROBERT T, one shop barge, one spill barge, and floating pipeline sections. The Dredge Bill Holman, M/V’s LENARD and BUDDY will be monitoring marine channel 13.

Shawn Kenney
Ch. Technical Support Branch