The background story on the inspiration for these tunes is fascinating, about how Ontario, Canada flooded several native villages to create a waterway to the Atlantic Ocean.
This series of operations created a waterway 27 feet deep, replacing six canals and 22 locks that had been limited to a depth of 14 feet.
Their goal was not to drain or irrigate land, Mr. Carr said, but to create a waterway to bring dugout canoes to their village, a mile north of the Caloosahatchee.
Most ambitiously, they intend to open up part of the river Sheaf near the site of Sheffield's former medieval castle to create a waterway in the centre surrounded by parkland, flowers, trees and seating for the public.
The river has been canalized upstream to Bamberg and forms part of the Main-Danube Canal (completed 1992), which links the Rhine and Danube rivers, creating a 2,200-mile 2,200-mile 3,500-kilometre 3,500-kilometreSea to the Black Sea.
The new reservoir is not only forcing relocation of 1.3 million people but also is creating a leisurely waterway out of a stretch of the Yangtze once so rocky and turbulent that, for thousands of years, small boats were dragged upstream by trackers shouldering bamboo hawsers.
They will widen and deepen the rivers and straighten them to create a seamless waterway.
George Washington had failed in a bid to use the Potomac river to create a viable waterway over the mountains.
Locks were one of the marvels of the canal when it was first built, making it possible to create a navigable waterway across upstate New York's uneven terrain.
What better way to expedite that growth than to create a commercial waterway that would enable ships to bring building supplies -- brownstone, bluestone, lumber -- straight into the heart of Brooklyn?
