On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:49:02 -0500, "Martin H. Eastburn"
wrote:

Look at the Erie canal - what are the locks for ?

Does that still exist in operation ANYWHERE?
It used to go very near a house I once lived in in Ohio IIRC.
Buckeye Lake in Ohio was constructed to provide
some of it's water IIRC.
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Cliff