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Erie Canal Lock 28a Boat Transit
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- Boat transit, morning if June 22, 2024.
The timeline has been compressed, and the transit actually took significantly longer.
The Erie Canal, aka the NY State Barge Canal is part of the NY State Canal system. The current canal, as opposed to the original "Clinton's Ditch" or the Enlarged Canal was started in 1905, and finished in 1918.
In 2024, there is very little commercial traffic, with almost all boats being recreational or tour boats.
Lock 28a is the location of the Westernmost of 3 repair/service dry docks, which you can see on the left in this video. It will be the subject of a later video
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I always wondered what would happen if both gates were open at the same time. Japan had plans to do so to the Panama Canal in WWII.
@@TheGregstorm happened in the UK recently. I can’t find the one from like 70 years or more ago in the USA (want to say Ohio, but). Took a long time for them to stop that one.
One the Erie, the would close the relevant guard gates. They actually drain large parts of the canal very winter!
In the case of 28a, they would probably just make sure 28b stayed closed (upstream by something like 1.5 miles ), and let it drain. The depth of the canal is like 14 feet.
There have been at least 2 breaches in the Bushnell's Basin area since the seventies and one just four years ago in Palmyra. The BB breaches caused significant flooding. The one above 29 in Palmyra happened during the overnight and went unnoticed until the lock operator showed up for his shift the next morning. Imagine his surprise when he discovered most of his water gone from the upper level.
In the BB breach they lowered the guard gates to isolate the breach. In Palmyra it was such a a relatively short distance to Macedon lock 30 that no further action was needed. And fortunately the volume of the breach was small enough that the overflow at Swift's Landing took care of it and no significant flooding issues were reported.
@@jamesdenearing1557 Thanks for that info!