JASPER, Tenn. (AP) -- A lock along the Tennessee River has been set to reopen to the public after it was closed off after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
The Nickajack Lock on the Tennessee River in Marion County was fenced off and equipped with barricades, speed bumps and padlocked steel gates for 14 years.
The Times Free Press reported the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been working to open the lock to the public. The locks at Guntersville and Wheeler dams in Alabama and the Pickwick Dam in Hardin County, Tennessee, were also being reopened.
Corps spokesman Lee Roberts said visiting hours were being set for public access.
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