. Diversion of water from the Great Lakes and Niagara River. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports by Col. J. G. Warren, Corps of Engineers, and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, of an investigation authorized by Public Resolution no. 8, sixty-fifth Congress, of the subject of water diversion from the Great Lakes and the Niagara River, including navigation, sanitary, and power purposes, and the preservation of the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls and the rapids of Niagara River. DIVEKSIOX OF WATER FKOM GREAT LAKES AND NIAGAR
. Diversion of water from the Great Lakes and Niagara River. Letter from the Secretary of War transmitting with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, reports by Col. J. G. Warren, Corps of Engineers, and the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, of an investigation authorized by Public Resolution no. 8, sixty-fifth Congress, of the subject of water diversion from the Great Lakes and the Niagara River, including navigation, sanitary, and power purposes, and the preservation of the scenic beauty of Niagara Falls and the rapids of Niagara River. DIVEKSIOX OF WATER FKOM GREAT LAKES AND NIAGARA RIVER. 273 better, both at mean stage and at low water. The upper part of theHorseshoe Kapids will be considerably damaged by the exposure ofbare spots, especially at low stage. It is quite possible that the layerof these might be transformed into wooded islands, such as are nowan attractive feature of the American Kapids. Also, at the low stagecaused by these divei-sions, new cascades and breakers will probablybe formed at points where tlie water is now fairly smooth. Thelower part of the Horseshoe Eapids will be improved by having agreater depth on the shoals in the northwest corner and above Ter-rapin Point and by the creation of a new cascade on a grand scaleat the site of the submerged dam. The beauty of the Horseshoe Falls, which has been injured by thepower diversions and by the recession of the Falls, will be restoredand added to until the Falls takes on an aspect far more grand thanit has ever had before. At mean stage its disch
Size: 1426px × 1752px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublisherwashi, bookyear1921
