Corps Awards $341-million Fix for High-Risk Dam in Kentucky - ENR | McGraw-Hill Construction

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A notice to proceed has launched a 48-month construction project to halt seepage threatening to undermine Wolf Creek Dam at Jamestown, Ky., on the Cumberland River in south central Kentucky. The dam is one of six owned by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that the Corps has designated Class 1 (urgent and compelling) because of severe deficiencies. Under a $341.4-million contract, Treviicos Soletanche JV has begun construction of a 2-ft-thick concrete barrier wall 4,200 ft long and 274 ft deep, extending 125 ft down into the karstic rock formation below the dam. Wolf Creek Dam, 5,736 ft long and 258 ft high, is a combination of rolled earthfill and concrete gravity structure.

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