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Great
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people began to realize the value of the canals for leisure, boating,
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The
Great Lakes Waterway
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The
Great
Lakes Waterway
is a system of channels and canals that makes all of the Great Lakes
accessible
to oceangoing vessels. Its principal civil engineering components are
the
Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake
Erie,
and the Sault locks, bypassing the rapids of the St. Marys River
between
Lake Superior and Lake Huron, at Sault Sainte Marie. Maintained
channels
serve the St. Clair River and Detroit River between Lake Huron and Lake
Ontario.
The Great
Lakes Waterway
is supplemented by the Saint Lawrence Seaway, which makes the Saint
Lawrence
River navigable from Montreal to Kingston, Ontario. The two waterways
are
often jointly referred to as the St.
Lawrence Seaway. The Great
Lakes Waterway
is co-administered by Canada and the United States.
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Trent Severn Waterway - The Trent Severn Waterway is a water
system
of canals and lakes that allow boaters to travel the 387 kilometers of
water from the Bay of Quinte at the east end of Lake Ontario up as far
as Georgian Bay in Lake Huron. It takes roughly a week to travel the
full
length of the system by boat. You will pass through a number of
historical
areas and may embark on day trips at many of the ports of call to visit
the towns and villages and points of interest along the way. |
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Intracoastal
Waterway
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Intracoastal
Waterway is
a 4,800 km (3,000 mile) long recreational and commercial waterway along
the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. Some lengths of the
ICW are natural and others are manmade.
The creation
of the Intracoastal
Waterway was first authorized by the United States Congress in 1919,
and
is maintained by the Army Corps of Engineers.
The waterway
consists of
two non-contiguous segments: the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, extending
from Brownsville, Texas to Caraballe, Florida, and the Atlantic
Intracoastal
Waterway, extending from Key West, Florida to Boston, Massachusetts.
The
two segments were originally intended to be connected via a canal link
across northern Florida, but this was never completed due to
environmental
concerns. |
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Intracoastal Waterway Organization |
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| Waterway
restoration in the United Kingdom - At the present time, canal
restoration in the UK is carried out by a mixture of volunteers and
professionals
working on a large verity of projects. |
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| Duwamish
Waterway - The lower 4½ miles of the Duwamish, an area
known
as the Lower Duwamish Waterway, has been the focus of many restoration
efforts. A local public-private partnership called the Lower Duwamish
Waterway
Group, or LDWG, is one of the leaders in that accomplishment. |
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| Welland
Canal - The Welland Canal is one of the world's greatest man
made
wonders. Although not as well known as the ancient Egyptian pyramids or
as famous as it's neighbouring natural wonder Niagara Falls, the
Welland
Canal can be best described as simply amazing. |
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Guide Great Lakes Edition 2005 by Gary Reich (Editor) |
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