The large lock at the Ballard Locks is closed for the next two weeks for annual maintenance.
Photo from the 2009 closure
During the closure, US Army Corps of Engineers workers will remove barnacles from the walls and floor. According to Andrea Takash with the Corps, the annual work reduces the hazards to juvenile salmon drawn into the filling tunnels.
The small lock will remain open for boat traffic throughout the closure. The small lock can normally accommodate vessels 100 feet in length with 25 foot beams.
The large lock is scheduled to re-open at 5 p.m. on November 24th.
A shame they could not combine cleaning with the closure caused by the lightning strike, but I guess this is not something you can just do at the drop of a hat.
I want to go down and take pictures… :(
what’s that smell?
seriously–what angeline said– why not just do it when you had it shut down before? silly government waste… can anyone find a way to tie it to Gregoire?
isn’t some of the marine “waste” necessary for the biosystem?