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Canal
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An artificial waterway or artificially improved river used for travel, shipping, or irrigation. | A tubular channel within the body or within a plant. | One of the faint, hazy markings resembling straight lines on early telescopic images of the surface of Mars; see Martian canals
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From south to north these are the Jiangnan Canal, the Li Canal, the Zhong Canal, the Lu Canal, the South Canal, the North Canal, and the Tonghui River.
Jiangnan Canal The Jiangnan Canal This southernmost section of the canal runs from Hangzhou in Zhejiang, where the canal connects with the Qiantang River, to Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, where it meets the Yangtze.
Southern Canal The junction of the Lu Canal and South Canal The fifth section of the canal extends for a distance of convert from Linqing to Tianjin along the course of the canalised Wei River.
An ambitious canal project proposed by Turkey in 2018 pledged to uncover the canal and eventually link the ancient harbor city to the sea once again after a 6,130-meter length of the canal became covered with alluvial deposits over the centuries.
Even with plans to increase commercial or charitable income or volunteering, the Canal & River Trust expects the reduced funding for canal repair and maintenance may lead to canal closures.
The Ashby Canal Trust is happy the Measham project will mean a new stretch of canal linking Measham with Snarestone and the rest of the country's canal network.
This week and next week Athy Arts Centre in Woodstock Street hosts an exhibition of photographs and videos of Canal Boats and Canal men working the Barrow Line and the Grand Canal.
The Zaandam had planned to pass through the Panama Canal en route to Florida, but after being inspected by Panamanian authorities, the request to use the canal was denied, said canal Administrator Ricauter Vásquez.
Dumping debris on the canal banks, and dumping anything in the right of way easements (the space west of the canal between the canal bank and the telephone poles) that needs to be picked up and hauled off is a code violation.
Benn, 7. Minor additions to the canal were made after the Sui period to cut down on travel time, but overall no fundamental differences existed between the Sui Grand Canal and the Tang Grand Canal.
Distance is based on position markers from an interactive canal map provided online by the New York State Canal Corporation and may not exactly match specifications on signs posted along the canal.
During this period of " canal mania ", huge sums were invested in canal building, and although many schemes came to nothing, the canal system rapidly expanded to nearly 4,000 miles (over 6,400 kilometres) in length.
During World War II, canal traffic did not increase, but the economy boomed as the convoy system and the presence of United States forces, sent to defend the canal, increased foreign spending in the canal cities.
Earliest canals included Plauen Canal (1745), Finow Canal, and also Bega Canal (1710) which connected Timișoara to Novi Sad and Belgrade via Danube.
Han Gou is known as the second oldest section of the later Grand Canal since the Hong Gou (鴻溝, "Canal of the Flying Geese" or "Far-Flung Canal") most likely preceded it.
In both cases pumping stations are required to keep the land surrounding the canal dry, either pumping water from the canal into surrounding waters, or pumping it from the land into the canal.
Jia Canal In 12 BC, to solve the problem of the Grand Canal having to use convert of the perilous course of the Yellow River in Northern Jiangsu, a man named Li Hualong opened the Jia Canal.
Jizhou Canal This, the Grand Canal’s first true summit section, was engineered by the Mongol Oqruqči in 1238 to connect Jining to the southern end of the Huitong Canal.
The other half of the Canal des Deux Mers, the Canal du Midi, partly escaped this operation, because by the time the works had reached the area where the most locks were situated, commercial traffic on the canal had almost disappeared.
The present-day canal is marked in pale grey Canal system The Rideau Canal in Ottawa, Canada, with Parliament Hill and the old "Union Station" visible in the background.