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  2. Lock (water navigation) - Wikipedia

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    The boat enters the lock. 8–9. The boat enters the lock. 3. The lower gates are closed. 10. The upper gates are closed. 4–5. The lock is filled with water from upstream. 11–12. The lock is emptied by draining its water downstream. 6. The upper gates are opened. 13. The lower gates are opened. 7. The boat exits the lock. 14. The boat exits ...

  3. Panama Canal locks - Wikipedia

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    The Panama Canal locks (Spanish: Esclusas del Canal de Panamá) are a lock system that lifts ships up 85 feet (26 metres) to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps (three up, three down) for a ship's passage. The total length of the lock structures, including the approach walls, is ...

  4. Ballard Locks - Wikipedia

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    NRHP reference No. 78002751 [1] Added to NRHP. December 14, 1978. The Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, or Ballard Locks, is a complex of locks at the west end of Salmon Bay in Seattle, Washington's Lake Washington Ship Canal, between the neighborhoods of Ballard to the north and Magnolia to the south. [2]: 2 [3][4]: 6.

  5. Fonseranes Locks - Wikipedia

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    Boats now enter and leave the lower end of the flight through the side of chamber seven, which is permanently kept at its upper water level. The flight is therefore effectively made up of six locks. The lower gates of the seventh chamber are now permanently closed; the eighth chamber and the ninth lock, the pre-1858 route descending to the Orb ...

  6. Caisson lock - Wikipedia

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    Caisson lock. The caisson lock is a type of canal lock in which a narrowboat is floated into a sealed watertight box and raised or lowered between two different canal water levels. It was invented in the late 18th century as a solution to the problem posed by the excessive demand for water when conventional locks were used to raise and lower ...

  7. Great Lakes Waterway - Wikipedia

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    Great Lakes Waterway. The Great Lakes Waterway (GLW) is a system of natural channels and artificial locks and canals which enable navigation between the North American Great Lakes. [1] Though all of the lakes are naturally connected as a chain, water travel between the lakes was impeded for centuries by obstacles such as Niagara Falls and the ...

  8. Henrichenburg boat lift - Wikipedia

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    A complete descent or lift cycle, including entry and exit, took about 45 minutes. The actual lowering/lifting only took two and a half minutes. This was much faster than possible using ordinary locks. This method of raising boats also conserved water at the upper elevation which relied entirely on water pumped from the lower elevation for its ...

  9. Port Mayaca Lock and Dam - Wikipedia

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    56 feet. The Port Mayaca Lock is a navigable lock and dam on the Okeechobee Waterway ( St. Lucie Canal ), adjacent to U.S. Route 441 and U.S. Route 98 at Canal Point, in Martin County, Florida, United States. [1] It is located near Port Mayaca at latitude 26° 59" 5', longitude -80° 37" 5'. [2] Port Mayaca Lock is open daily from 7:00am to 5:00pm.

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