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 ...
The New York State Canal Corp. won't agree to any restoration work on the original Erie Canal locks in the city if it interferes with current canal operations, the committee leading the project was ...
Although the Wabash & Erie Canal rolled through Terre Haute in the 1800s, virtually no evidence of its existence is available today. That will change when Lock 47, part of where the canal once coursed ...