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A Dry Niagra Falls
22 Dec 2010 by Jasmine Stone in Environment, Very Cool, World
These photographs were shot in 1969, and were uncovered in some inocuous storage unit just last week.
They’re a pretty fascinating documentary of a brief period in 1969 when the United States Army Engineer Corps dammed up the falls slightly upstream , in an effort to affect a little bedrock maintanence at the foot of the falls. The team bolted and shored up unstable portions of the bed below the American side of the falls, and removed rocks that had previously posed a threat to the Niagra Falls ferry.
It was the first time in 12 000 years that the flow of the falls had been interrupted.
I dig the fact that they dammed up the falls to complete maintenance on the American side only. Nothing like a little neighbourly snark.
[Source: Daily Mail]
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