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I'm Dale Woolridge,

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a NASA project manager
for Center Operations

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here at
Stennis Space Center.

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We're here today to
witness the reinstallation

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of the refurbished
miter gates.

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Built in the sixties,
the miter gates were

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in desperate need of
refurbishment to maintain

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a safe operating
condition for the locks.

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The locks allows
marine traffic

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to enter
Stennis Space Center

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and access the test stands through the canal system,

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bringing various
items including

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test hardware for
propulsion tests.

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So it's very critical
to Stennis Space Center

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to maintain a
good operation.

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In order to do that,
we had to pull

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the miter gates and have
them shipped offsite

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for very extensive refurbishment.

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The contractor has
recently brought

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the gates back and
is in the process

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of reinstalling
the gates.

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Another reason why the
navigation lock project

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is critical is because
some of the hardware,

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some of the items
that need to get

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to the test stands
can only be brought in

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by marine traffic,
not across the roadway.

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In the interim, the
contractor installed

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a retaining wall to
keep the canal level

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back from the Pearl River.

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The Stennis canal
level is approximately

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sixteen and a half
feet above the Pearl,

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so the lock system allows
marine traffic to elevate

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and come, come into
Stennis Space Center.

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The navigation lock
project is just one

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of many that ensures
the ability for Stennis

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to maintain future
test operations.

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