Gatun locks mark Atlantic side of Panama Canal. The Panama Canal Authority took a first step in the $3.35–billion effort to construct a new set of locks, with the Aug. 28 release of a request for ...
On the morning that Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, a levee breach sucked a barge out of the Industrial Canal and into a residential section of the Lower 9th Ward, where it landed on top of homes, ...
One human lifetime. That’s how long we’ve been debating whether the lock of the Industrial Canal should be widened — “we” meaning shipping interests, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and residents of ...
Excavation on the Erie Canal. From “Memoir at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals,” 1825. Map of Erie Canal Illustration of Gov. Dewitt Clinton opening the Erie Canal on Oct. 26, ...