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B-Roll: Construction of concrete batch plant at Montgomery Locks and Dam

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District

Oct. 25, 2023 | 3:47

B-Roll footage of construction workers, welders and heavy machinery clearing land and building a retaining wall for a concrete batch plant that will be used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District for a new lock construction at the Montgomery Locks and Dam in Monaca, Pennsylvania, Oct. 25, 2023.

The navigation facility at Montgomery is part of the Upper Ohio Navigation Project, a multi-billion-dollar construction project that will replace locks at Emsworth, Dashields, and Montgomery locks and dams. The project will replace the auxiliary chamber at each site, measuring 56 feet wide by 360 feet long, with locks measuring 110 feet wide by 600 feet long.

The current phase of construction involves clearing an area to construct a batch plant. The batch plant will produce about about 400,000 cubic yards of concrete, equivalent to a football field covered nearly 200 feet high, or 1.6 billion pounds. The plant will produce nine different concrete mixes used in various types of construction, such as underwater, structural, and mass concrete, among others. An onsite laboratory will sample and test the concrete to ensure quality.

(U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Pittsburgh District video by Michel Sauret)