A summit-level canal, sometimes called a "watershed canal" or just "summit Canal", is an artificial waterway connecting two separate river valleys. The...

first summit level canal to use pound locks in Europe was the Briare Canal connecting the Loire and Seine (1642), followed by the more ambitious Canal du...

Marseillan, where the canal opens into the étang de Thau (between Agde and Sète). The Canal du Midi is a summit-level canal, climbing from Toulouse...

canals in France. Its construction started in 1604. It was the first summit level canal in Europe that was built using pound locks, connecting the Rhone-Saône...

A canal pound (from impound), reach, or level (American usage), is the stretch of level water impounded between two canal locks. Canal pounds can vary...

Altitude at Maxilly-sur-Saône: 187 m Altitude of summit level: 345 m The canal was recently renamed "Canal entre Champagne et Bourgogne" for the purpose...

garrison, and became a port in 1742 when the Newry Canal was opened, the first summit-level canal in Ireland. A cathedral city, it is the episcopal seat...

canal was described by experts as a technological marvel, with numerous sluices contributing to its aesthetic appeal. It was the first summit level canal...

Elbe). Built between 1391 and 1398, the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe...

The Canal des Ardennes (French pronunciation: [kanal de.z‿aʁdɛn], literally Ardennes Canal) is a summit level canal built to the Freycinet gauge between...

sight New Zealand. Opening throughout of the Briare Canal in France, the first summit level canal in Europe built using pound locks. The printmaking process...

reach, the first summit-level canal in the United States. The term refers to a canal that rises then falls, as opposed to a lateral canal, which has a continuous...

the Stecknitz Canal was the first European summit-level canal and one of the earliest artificial waterways in Europe. In the 1890s the canal was replaced...

inclines rise from the lower level of the canal to a summit and then down a second shorter incline to the upper canal level. The first part of the main...

only a single summit section. The elevation of the canal bed varies from 1 m below sea level at Hangzhou to 38.5 m above at its summit. At Beijing, it...

be Ireland's first ever Protestant church. The Newry Canal is also the first summit-level canal ever to be built in the British Isles. Castlewellan Forest...

reservoir-fed canal in the U.S. In this design, reservoirs were created and feeder canals were dug to bring water to the summit level of the canal. This had...

The Summit Bridge carries Delaware Routes 71 and 896 across the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal. The bridge also carries Delaware Bicycle Route 1, a bicycle...

the north-west end of the summit level is Bulbourne Works, where lock gates were manufactured until 2003 for the southern canal network. Half a mile (800...

the canal is 171 kilometres (106 mi); the summit elevation (between the Hilpoltstein and Bachhausen locks) is 406 metres (1,332 ft) above sea level. This...

1875. On July 4, 1825, ground was broken for the canal at Licking Summit near Newark, Ohio. The canals were specified to have a minimum width of 40 feet...

wide along the channel bottom. A covered wooden bridge at Summit, Delaware, spanned the canal across the "Deep Cut", measuring 250 feet (76 m) between...

miles (6.4 km). Between 1825 and 1829 the canal was improved by the cutting down by 16 feet (4.9 m) of the summit at Smethwick, which occupied two and a...

estimate was for a narrow canal, whereas the act authorised a broad canal, and so the capital was never going to be adequate. The summit tunnel was abandoned...

The Canal de l'Oise à l'Aisne (French pronunciation: [kanal də lwaz a lɛn], literally Canal of the Oise to the Aisne) is a summit level canal in the Hauts-de-France...

make navigation easier during periods of flood. Problems often remained where the original course of the river was still used. Canal Summit level canal...

Great Wall of China and besieges Beijing, burning the suburbs. The summit level canal between the Alster and the Trave in Germany ceases to be navigable...

supply to the summit level. The canal became a bottleneck, and the operation of the waterway soon became uneconomic. A further nail in the canal's coffin was...

between Newry Town Hall and the Bann Bridge in Portadown. The Canal was the first summit level canal in Britain and Ireland and has 14 locks between its entrance...

The Birmingham Canal Navigations (BCN), a network of narrow canals in the industrial midlands of England, is built on various water levels. The three longest...