Sentence examples for closed to navigation from inspiring English sources

The river is frozen and thus closed to navigation during the four winter months (November through February).

In Switzerland, the river port of Basel was shut after part of the swollen Rhine River was closed to navigation, and in France a sodden mountainside gave way, sliding into a highway near Moutiers in the French Alps.

The Portage Canal was built between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers in the 1850s, but it faced competition from a railroad that came through the town in 1857; the canal fell into disuse and was closed to navigation in 1951.

The Mississippi, which handles some $7 billion in trade in a typical December and January, is expected to be closed to navigation between St .Louis and Cairo, Ill., when water levels dip toward the nine feet of depth that is necessary for most tugboats to clear the river bottom.

While Nora stayed off the Pacific coast of Mexico, the Servicio Meteorológico Nacional (National Meteorological Service) issued a hurricane watch for the coast between Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán, and Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, and several major ports in the shoreline closed to navigation.

Companies which ship their goods on the river are talking about lay-offs, if the Mississippi closes to navigation.

Pool 1, created by Ford Dam, was closed to river navigation between mile markers 847 and 854.5.

The navigation had by then fallen into disrepair, its owners preferring instead to maintain the more profitable canal; in 1882 the navigation was described as being "hopelessly choked with silt and filth", and was closed to all but the smaller boats for 264 out of 311 working days.

But what users have today isn't even close to the new Navigation product.

Plibersek stopped short of calling for Australia to announce regular freedom-of-navigation exercises close to the disputed territories and reefs, saying public statements "can be perceived as deliberately provocative so you'd have to take a case-by-case approach".

The United States must begin to send ships routinely through and close to the Spratlys and elsewhere in the Pacific on similar "freedom of navigation" missions.