Sentence examples for waterway into from inspiring English sources

Human beings, massed together, tend to turn any convenient waterway into a sewer.

The cruise heads east along the tree-lined historic waterway, into the countryside and past several canalside villages.

Officials say that when a major hurricane strikes, the structure will block a lethal Gulf of Mexico storm surge from barreling down the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway into the Industrial Canal.

Indeed, the bikes, the gondola, the open-air cafes and the planters bursting with purple pansies are just the beginning of a multimillion-dollar construction plan, inspired by the city's mayor, Richard M. Daley, to turn what has long been a polluted industrial waterway into a gleaming tourist attraction.

The upgrade, which is scheduled to be completed by 2004, will allow the terminal to place most of its cargo on railroad cars that will travel across a bridge over the Kill Van Kull waterway into New Jersey and the rest of the country.

The canal's flushing tunnel, which turned the Gowanus, Brooklyn's legendarily filthy waterway, into a bouillabaisse of frolicking sea creatures when it began drawing cleaner water from New York Harbor into the canal last year, has been out of commission since March 14.

Throughout the former Soviet Union, industry has turned waterways into environmental catastrophes.

Proposals to block Asian carp from invading the Great Lakes have largely focused on the costs and inconvenience of closing off Chicago-area waterways into Lake Michigan.

Work was begun in 1862, across the East River from its Bronx counterpart, Fort Schuyler, to defend waterways into New York City, but its cannons never fired a shot in anger.

Those dams were essentially giant spigots on the rivers, and they enabled water managers to turn the waterways into an open-air water piping system.

Built in 1857, Fort Totten was equipped to defend waterways into New York City, but it served mainly as an Army training base until it was closed in 1995.