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  2. Floodgate - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Stoplogs - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Locks on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Kings Norton Stop Lock - Wikipedia

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    The west gate of the lock The east gate of the lock. Kings Norton Stop Lock (grid reference) is a Grade II* listed building at Kings Norton Junction on the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal near its junction with the Worcester and Birmingham Canal. It is the only guillotine-gated stop-lock on a canal. [1]

  6. Watermen's stairs - Wikipedia

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    The Pelican Stairs next to the Prospect of Whitby pub in Wapping. Watermen's stairs were semipermanent structures that formed part of a complex transport network of public stairs, causeways and alleys in use from the 14th century to access the waters of the tidal River Thames in England.

  7. American Airlines Tries New Boarding System That Publicly ...

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    How Does the New System StopGate 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 ...

  8. The Best All-You-Can-Eat Restaurant in Every State - AOL

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    Stop in at Avery's Maryland Grille and you can gorge on crabs, crab soup, french fries, hush puppies, cornbread, coleslaw, and steamed corn for one flat price. For a bit more, you can add fried ...

  9. Watermans - Wikipedia

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    Watermans or Waterman's may refer to: Watermans Arts Centre, arts centre in London, England, UK; Watermans Bay, Western Australia, suburb of Perth, Australia;