The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, through its Charleston, S.C. District, is building a $3.2-million security barricade at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The project, to replace a 20-year-old temporary barricade, should be finished by the end of the year, the Corps said in a Friday March 3 press release.
The new barricade located at the third-busiest Savannah River entrance, includes revamped driving lanes and traffic controls, inspection canopies and a “ballistic-rated guard house,” according to the release. “All of this greatly improves the security of SRS [Savannah River Site] and the officers manning the site,” Robert Sorenson, a Charleston District project manager, said in the release.
Design of the new barricade will be finished in coming months followed by tear-down of the temporary barricade and construction of the new one, the Corps said in the release. The Army Corps Charleston District supports SRS, through services such as design, construction and project management, under an interagency agreement dating back to 1985.
