Messing
About in Boats, Boots, and Byways:
Archive of Erie Canal Journal entries for 2002:
06 November 02 |
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One
of our favorite destinations is the Erie Canal,
which originally began in downtown Buffalo, and
later when the canal was widened and renamed the
Erie Canal Barge Canal, the canal began, and still
begins, at North Tonawanda on the Niagara River
where Tonawanda Creek empties into the river.
We have biked in five-mile bites from Lockport
to Brockport, and we've rowed a time or two, too. |
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The
watch continues as the canal faces winter
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At
left: Exchange St. Lift Bridge -- canal still full of
water. Below: Guard Gate near East Canal Road is beginning
to dry up the canal. The far gate seeks to be all the
way down, and the near gate seems to be partly down.
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06
Nov. 02: I
detoured over by Lockport on the way home from church this afternoon
to see if the draining of the canal had started. In Lockport,
below the locks, there was no indication that anything was afoot.
Going home, I followed the canal and came upon a Guard Gate near
the confluence of the canal and Tonawanda Creek. The gate was
down, and the canal was down a few feet. We're planning to check
again this weekend to get some more pictures. |
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