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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ updated plan for the Industrial Canal lock replacement adds costs, a longer timeline, and ...
The large lock chamber at Lake Washington Ship Canal and Hiram M. Chittenden Locks will remain open to navigation through noon, Nov. 4. Closure 4, part of the large lock center gate replacement ...
Most machinery and equipment, including the large lock center miter gate, are original to the Locks. Improving this 106-year-old navigation infrastructure will help the Army Corps supply ...
Experts have completed a painstaking 10-week process to replace two sets of lock gates on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal. Worn-out gates were replaced at the top and bottom ends of the 200-year ...
THE Canal and River Trust needs to replace a lock gate at Diglis Basin. The gate at Lock No2, on the Worcester and Birmingham Canal, is Grade II listed and so the trust needs permission from the ...
a cargo ship rammed into a lock gate on the Moselle River, creating a traffic standstill that could last months—a dire situation reminiscent of the blockage in the Suez Canal. While not as big ...
Over the next six months he built the fully functioning canal lock, complete with a gate and water pumping system to fill and empty it. He also constructed a redbrick lockkeeper's cottage and an ...
A lock gate has been hand-towed down a canal on a pontoon by volunteers and moored by a 19th Century cottage built by Florence Nightingale's uncle. Aqueduct Cottage, near Cromford, in Derbyshire ...
A crane has lifted a lock gate into place on Derbyshire's Cromford Canal as part of the restoration of a lock-keeper's cottage built by Florence Nightingale's uncle. Volunteers have spent the past ...