Bauer Foundation Offers Update on Center Hill Dam Project
Remediation project involves foundation drilling, barrier wall hundreds of feet deep
Bauer Foundation Corp. began a new phase of a complex remediation project at Center Hill Dam in Tennessee.
Construction work on a foundation barrier wall began this spring, after an expansion of the dam’s crest to allow for heavy equipment, as well as the building of an encasement wall made up of 10-foot by 6-foot overlapping-rectangular columns within the earthen dam. Bauer will build the barrier wall through the encasement wall and up to 300 feet below the top of the dam, socketed into rock about 100 to 160 feet. The finished barrier wall will be more than 900 feet long.