Canal safety gates or canal air raid protection gates are structures that were installed on canals specifically to reduce or prevent flood damage to dwellings...
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Lock (water navigation) (redirect from Lock gates)
Grand Union Canal between Bedford and Milton Keynes. United Kingdom portal Transport portal Canal Canal safety gates Channel (geography) Canal & River Trust...
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the gates together firmly. The gates can be opened only when, in the operating cycle, the water level on both sides is equal. The original gate machinery...
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regeneration project Forth to Firth Canal Pathway Falkirk Helix John Muir Way World Canals Conference Donald's Quay Canal safety gates Stockingfield Junction Joseph...
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The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Caribbean Sea with the Pacific...
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The Welland Canal is a ship canal in Ontario, Canada, and part of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Great Lakes Waterway. The canal traverses the Niagara Peninsula...
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Stockingfield Junction (category Canals opened in 1775)
which was also the terminus of the Monkland Canal. The Stockingfield Narrows are the pair of 'safety or stop gates' built in 1942 to reduce flooding if German...
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included in the new system. In the basic canal network there are 51 structures – 24 gates, 16 locks, five safety gates, six pumping stations, and 180 bridges...
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Floodgate (redirect from Flood gates)
Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. They...
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The idea of the Panama Canal dates back to 1513, when the Spanish conquistador Vasco Núñez de Balboa first crossed the Isthmus of Panama. European powers...
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The Panama Canal expansion project (Spanish: ampliación del Canal de Panamá), also called the Third Set of Locks Project, doubled the capacity of the Panama...
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The Suez Canal (/ˈsuː.ɛz/; Arabic: قَنَاةُ ٱلسُّوَيْسِ, Qanāt as-Suwais) is an artificial sea-level waterway in Egypt, connecting the Mediterranean Sea...
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stop gates at Big Pool Garrity, Richard, p. 12 "Hanwell Lock Flight". Canal & River Trust. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 1 August 2020. "Narrowboat Safety and...
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Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls, New York, United States, infamous as the location of a 0.28 km2 (0.11 sq mi) landfill that became the site...
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Canal", a tight but navigable passageway with a turnaround at the end. Jones entered an unmapped passageway which he wrongly believed to be the Canal...
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empire. Periodic flooding of the Yellow River threatened the safety and functioning of the canal while, during wartime, the rivers' high dikes were sometimes...
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Srisailam Dam (section Dam Maintenance and Safety)
main canal by feeding water to K. C. Canal, Srisailam right bank canal, Telugu Ganga canal and Galeru Nagari canal irrigates vast area in Kurnool, Kadapa...
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sometimes it takes up to two months to build a set of gates. The gates used on the Rideau Canal are made of Douglas Fir and are mitre-shaped to ensure...
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the gate replacement works to improve the regulation and the flow of the barrage, the replacement of 64 main barrage steel gates, 25 main canal head...
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east-west canals (Carroll Canal, Linnie Canal, Howland Canal, and Sherman Canal) and two north-south canals (Eastern Canal and Grand Canal). The lit canals with...
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and metal gates. All were built by the engineer J Fletcher around 1805. Lock 1 has metal lower gates, and a wooden upper gate, while gates at both ends...
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irrigation canal called Fatehwadi canal is 6.9 km long and was completed in 1978. It has discharge capacity of 45.35 cubic metre per second. The canal supplies...
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number of safety gates. Those at Northwood consisted of two sets of mitred gates beneath a bridge, one facing each way, so that if the canal breached,...
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Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) was a flight-I Ticonderoga-class cruiser that was used by the United States Navy. The warship was named after Thomas S. Gates, Secretary...
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terminal gates was built. With these 12 new gates plus the existing 22 gates and the six remote aircraft docks, there is a total of 40 gates. The new...
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The Canal du Midi (French pronunciation: [kanal dy midi]; Occitan: Canal del Miègjorn [ka'nal del mjɛdˈd͡ʒuɾ]) is a 240 km (150 mi) long canal in Southern...
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the canal in Leipzig Railway bridge near Rückmarsdorf B 181 bridge near Rückmarsdorf Even in GDR times the canal was used for rowing Safety gate East...
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Avon Canal is a waterway in southern England with an overall length of 87 miles (140 km), made up of two lengths of navigable river linked by a canal. The...
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Expedition Unknown (redirect from Expedition Unknown: Josh Gates Tonight)
season of Expedition X premiered on August 14, 2024. In April 2020, Gates debuted Josh Gates Tonight, a talk show spinoff on Discovery which originated as replacement...
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the city from a 100-year storm. Gates and auxiliary pumps were added to the mouths of the three major drainage canals as well as the Inner Harbor Navigation...
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