Photos

Members of the Coalition of Alabama Waterway Associations present Colonel Byron Jorns with print “The First USS Alabama” during the Mobile District Corps of Engineers Change of Command in May 2010. From left: Mike Tagert Tenn-Tom, Col. Jorns USACE, Jerry Sailors CARIA, Billy Houston Tri-Rivers, Wynn Fuller USACE, Larry Merrihew Warrior-Tom, and Cline Jones TRVA.

This ‘Pic of the Valley’ is of the 110′x800′ Cheatham Lock on the Cumberland River during normal water conditions. The historic flooding that occurred at the beginning of May 2010 inundated the lock, including the elevated control rooms that can be seen in photo, damaging critical equipment that left the lock that provides navigation to [...]

This ‘Pic of the Valley’ is Bald Eagle on tributary of the Tennessee River in Lawrence County Alabama.

This ‘Pic of the Valley’ was taken not 500 yards from the banks of the Tennessee after a recent snowfall where it was believed only a couple of deer were standing. How many do you see? At least 8, maybe 9?

This ‘Pic of the Valley’ is of the Wilson Dam at Tennessee River Mile 259, the first dam built across the Tennessee River. Construction of Wilson Dam began in 1918 and was completed in 1924 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Tennessee Valley Authority aquired Wilson with the adoption of [...]

This ‘Pic of the Valley’ is of the Delta Mariner squeezing into the 110′x600′ Wheeler Lock. Wheeler is the first of 4 Tennessee River Navigation Locks the Mariner will transit on its way to the Gulf of Mexico via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Built to safely transport sensitive high value cargo on both inland rivers and open [...]