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  2. Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Wikipedia

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    The canal was engineered to have a 2 miles per hour (3 km/h) water current, supplying the canal and assisting mules pulling boats downstream. [7] The eastern section was the only part to be completed. [8] On October 23, 1826, the engineers submitted the study, presenting the proposed canal route in three sections.

  3. Great Recycling and Northern Development Canal - Wikipedia

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    The GRAND Canal would stabilize water levels in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River and improve water quality. The GRAND Canal system would also deliver new fresh water from the James Bay dyke-enclosure, via the Great Lakes, to many water deficit areas in Canada and the United States. The project was estimated in 1994 to cost C$100 billion ...

  4. Grand Canal (China) - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Canal (Chinese: 大运河; pinyin: Dà yùnhé) is a system of interconnected canals linking various major rivers in North and East China, serving as an important waterborne transport infrastructure between the north and the south during Medieval and premodern China.

  5. Grand Union Canal - Wikipedia

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    The section of the main line between Brentford and Braunston (formerly the Grand Junction Canal) was built as a 'wide' or 'broad' canal – that is, its locks were wide enough to accommodate two narrowboats abreast (side by side) or a single wide barge up to 14 feet (4.3 m) in beam.

  6. List of transcontinental canals - Wikipedia

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    The Canal des Deux Mers (English: Two Seas Canal) has been used to describe two different but similar things since the 1660s. In some cases, it describes the entire path from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, including two canals, the Canal du Midi and the Canal Latéral de la Garonne. In others it is used interchangeably with the Canal du ...

  7. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    A plan and side view of a generic, empty canal lock. A lock chamber separated from the rest of the canal by an upper pair and a lower pair of mitre gates.The gates in each pair close against each other at an 18° angle to approximate an arch against the water pressure on the "upstream" side of the gates when the water level on the "downstream" side is lower.

  8. Grand Canal of Versailles - Wikipedia

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    The Grand Canal of Versailles is the largest basin in the park of the Palace of Versailles. Cross-shaped, it was built between 1667 and 1679, at the instigation of André Le Nôtre . Prior to this date, the park was closed by a gate and ended behind the Bassin des Cygnes .

  9. St Mark's Campanile - Wikipedia

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    [note 2] [note 3] Integral to this defensive network, an iron harbour chain that could be pulled taut across the Grand Canal to impede navigation and block access to the centre of the city was installed at the height of San Gregorio. [8] [9] In addition, a massive watchtower was built in Saint Mark's Square.