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EMERGENCY EMBANKMENT DAM REPAIR!

EMERGENCY EMBANKMENT DAM REPAIR!
EMERGENCY EMBANKMENT DAM REPAIR! Mike Caswell March 21, 2018  Starting week commencing March 27th 2018, The New York Power Authority is carrying out an EMERGENCY EMBANKMENT REPAIR by driving interlocking steel sheet pilings 45 feet deep into the embankment, for a total length of 200 feet. Please note!! This is a classic example of the technique used…
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NYPA Save The Oxbow Embankment Dam From Slope Failure

NYPA Save The Oxbow Embankment Dam From Slope Failure
NYPA Please Save The Oxbow Embankment Dam From Slope Failure Mike Caswell March 20, 2018 Spotted today on the towpath at the Oxbow area in Fairport, several surveyors in two vans, looking at a potentially dangerous area where there is a leak right under an badly positioned R.G& E electricity pylon atop the dam. The…
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Power from The Canal? Is this a way to increase NYPA Profitability?

Power from The Canal? Is this a way to increase NYPA Profitability?
There’s a theory that the new owners of the canal system are interested in harnessing the run off and flow of water through the system to generate power. Here are a few links to this great environmentally friendly concept. Is the canal corporation about to get a new home? Erie Canal celebrates bicentennial of work…
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Reimagine a Better NY State Canal

Reimagine a Better NY State Canal
  Take a look at this idea... getting people down to the water's edge of the NYS Canal There's some exciting things floating your way on the new Erie Canal and we hope to keep you abreast of it all. RE-IMAGINE the CANAL is a bold project envisioned by the new owners, The New York…
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