Category: Electrical Industrial -- Under $500,000.PROJECT: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Little Rock District Tow Haulage Project LOCATION: Five Locks -- Toad Suck Ferry Lock, Dardanelle Lock Arthur V. Ormond Lock, Ozark-Jetta Taylor Lock, James W. Trimble Lock CONTRACTOR: Osage Constructors ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR: Koontz Electric Co. PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The Little Rock District of the Army Corps of Engineers operates 13 locks and dams on the Arkansas River Arkansas River River, rising in central Colorado, U.S. At 1,450 mi (2,333 km) long, it flows east through southern Kansas and southeast across northeastern Oklahoma and bisects Arkansas, where it empties into the Mississippi River. , from the Oklahoma border to where it merges with the Mississippi River Mississippi River River, central U.S. It rises at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows south, meeting its major tributaries, the Missouri and the Ohio rivers, about halfway along its journey to the Gulf of Mexico. . The "McClellan-Kerr" navigation system A GPS-based electronic system in a car or truck that provides a real time map of the vehicle's current location as well as step-by-step directions to a programmed destination. See GPS and vehicle tracking. is a major by-way for commodity transportation. This project installed tow haulage systems at five locations to allow barge operators to push larger tows, thereby reducing total transportation costs. Koontz Electric Co. was the subcontractor for all the tow haulage systems on the river. The new system allows a tow operator to break an excess load into two sections, and tow the first section through the lock without the tugboat tugboat, small, strongly built vessel, used to guide large oceangoing ships into and out of port and to tow barges, dredging and salvage equipment, and disabled vessels. . This will save 2 to 3 hours per lock, or 26 to 39 hours over the entire system. That is a savings of over a day in travel time. The prime contract value exceeded $6 million, and Koontz Electric's subcontract responsibilities totaled $426,648. Koontz has collaborated with the general contractor A general contractor is an organization or individual that contracts with another organization or individual (the owner) for the construction of a building, road or any other execution of work or facility. , Osage Constructors, on several challenging and complex projects. |
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