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Floodgates, also called stop gates, are adjustable gates used to control water flow in flood barriers, reservoir, river, stream, or levee systems. They may be designed to set spillway crest heights in dams , to adjust flow rates in sluices and canals , or they may be designed to stop water flow entirely as part of a levee or storm surge system.
Stoplogs are designed to cut off or stop flow through a conduit. They are typically long rectangular timber beams or boards that are placed on top of each other and dropped into premade slots inside a weir, gate, or channel. Present day, the process of adding and removing stoplogs is not manual, but done with hydraulic stoplog lifters and ...
Domineering (also called Stop-Gate or Crosscram) is a mathematical game that can be played on any collection of squares on a sheet of graph paper.For example, it can be played on a 6×6 square, a rectangle, an entirely irregular polyomino, or a combination of any number of such components.
The four gate stop lock near Kings Norton Junction, between the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal and the Worcester and Birmingham Canal was replaced in 1914 by a pair of guillotine lock gates which stopped the water flow regardless of which canal was higher. These gates have been permanently open since nationalisation. [36]
Stockingfield or Lochburn Aqueduct was a potential target for the Luftwaffe in WWII.. Canal safety gates or canal air raid protection gates are structures that were installed on canals specifically to reduce or prevent flood damage to dwellings, factories, etc. in the event of aqueducts, canal banks, etc. being breached either through natural events or by enemy action during wars, insurgency ...
Just Stop Oil protesters have attempted to climb the gates of Downing Street on their 32nd day of action calling on the Government to halt all new oil and gas licences.
Note that the greatest number of stop gates were between Lock 50 and 51, that is the 14 mile level which includes Big Pool. There are stop gates both before and after Big pool. To add to the confusion, some of the locks, such as lock 33, had provisions to put in boards as a stop gate at the top of the lock.
How Does the New System Stop “Gate Lice”? The best way possible: Publicly shaming people who try and board ahead of their group! According to flyers on Reddit who’ve seen the new technology ...