Diversion of Water from the Great Lakes and Niagara River

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - 415 sidor
 

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Letter of Col J G Warren Corps of Engineers__
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Drainage Canal 372
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Water diversions at Niagara Falls__
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Letter of transmittal W S Richmond assistant engineer
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Estimated annual charges for power development second diversion
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Lowering in feet at mean stage due to present diversions of water
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Appendix F Economic value of diversions__
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Discharge of Barge Canal at Lockport N Y under various con
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Typical bulk freighters of the Great Lakes_
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Old lock at Sault Ste Marie_
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Fourth lock at Sault Ste Marie_
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Weitzel Poe and third locks at Sault Ste Marie_
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Canadian lock at Sault Ste Marie_
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Illinois Michigan Canal
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Controlling works Chicago Drainage Canal
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Rock section present Welland Canal_
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Michigan Central Railroad drawbridge present Welland Canal_
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Port Dalhousie Ontario Lock No 1 present Welland Canal on left Lock No 1 old Welland Canal on right
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Black Rock ship lock
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Guard Lock No 72 old Erie Canal Black Rock_
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PLATES
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Canalized section of Oneida River___
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Exterior of hydraulic power house
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No Page 34 Exterior of gasoline power house
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Freight moved through Welland Canal in 1914
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Yearly mean diversion through the Chicago Sanitary Canal as reported
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In portfolio
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Typhoidfever death rate per 100000 in Niagara Falls N Y
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Bypass at Lockport N Y
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St Lawrence canals waste weir and gates at Lock No 27
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Head of Black River Canal Mich
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Controlling works and Government power house Sault Ste Marie__
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Dam on Illinois River at Marseilles Ill_
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Mills and power houses below Marseilles Dam_
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Rod floats used in survey of Niagara Rapids_
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Field parties observing floats from J
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Suspension Bridge gauge
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Prospect Point gauge__
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Rock soundings driving a rod
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Present operation of Sault Ste Marie power plants
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American Falls from Canadian side_
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3 The same__
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American Falls from Goat Island 256
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The same_ 256
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Lower Rapids foot of Fosters Flats looking upstream_ 256
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Foot of Lower Rapids showing Lower Gorge gauge__ 256
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Panorama of Falls from Falls View
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American Falls from Goat Island_
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Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island_
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East end of Horseshoe Falls from The Refectory 19
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East end of Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island
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View from Goat Island in 1885 and today showing old paper mill____
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Head of hydraulic canal Port Day 272
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Hydraulic canal above Third Street_ 272
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Basin and foot of hydraulic canal__ 272
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End of basin and gatehouse of station 3 272
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Supplementary report Lieut Jones__
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Estimated cost of tunnels per lineal foot
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Efficiency of hydraulic plant of Niagara Falls Power Co
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No Page 152 Station 3 turbine room
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Station 3 generator room
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Station 3 under construction
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Main tunnel under construction__
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Wheel pit of power house No 2 under construction
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General view of plant
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Intake canal
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Power house No 2
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Rack room of power house No 2
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Turbine in power house No 2
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Main tunnel outfall__
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Thrust bearing
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Generators in power house No 1 304
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Generator room power house No 2 304
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Estimate of cost of power canal proposition
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Power output of compound twostage proposition
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Interior of transformer station
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COMPENSATING WORKS 169 Compensating works in St Marys River_
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Another view of same
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Icecovered package freighter in St Clair River
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Government survey steamers in Cleveland Harbor
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Lightship on Lake St Clair_
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Sida 411 - America, have caused the said treaty and the said understanding, as forming a part thereof, to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and clause thereof may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington this...
Sida 411 - WHEREAS the Senate of the United States by their resolution of March 3, 1909, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein) did advise and consent to the ratification of the said Treaty...
Sida 406 - India, being equally desirous to prevent disputes regarding the use of boundary waters and to settle all questions which are now pending between the United States and the Dominion of Canada involving the rights, obligations, or interests of either in relation to the other or to the inhabitants of the other, along their common frontier, and to make provision for the adjustment and settlement of all such questions as may hereafter arise...
Sida 407 - It is agreed that, in addition to the uses, obstructions, and diversions heretofore permitted or hereafter provided for by special agreement between the Parties hereto, no further or other uses or obstructions or diversions, whether temporary or permanent, of boundary waters on either side of the line, affecting the natural level or flow of boundary waters on the other side of the line, shall be made except by authority of the United States or the Dominion of Canada within their respective jurisdictions...
Sida 410 - The present treaty shall be ratified by the President of the United States of America, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate thereof, and by His Britannic Majesty. The ratifications shall be exchanged at Washington as soon as possible and the treaty shall take effect on the date of the exchange of its ratifications. It shall thereafter remain in force continuously unless and until terminated by twenty-four months' written notice given by either high contracting party to the other.
Sida 97 - The High Contracting Parties agree that it is expedient to limit the diversion of waters from the Niagara river so that the level of Lake Erie and the flow of the stream shall not be appreciably affected. It is the desire of both parties to accomplish this object with the least possible injury to investments which have already been made in the construction of power plants on the United States...
Sida 410 - In all cases where special agreements between the High Contracting Parties hereto are referred to in the foregoing articles, such agreements are understood and intended to include not only direct agreements between the High Contracting Parties, but also any mutual arrangements between the United States and the Dominion of Canada expressed by concurrent or reciprocal legislation on the part of Congress and the Parliament of the Dominion.
Sida 409 - Such reports of the Commission shall not be regarded as decisions of the questions or matters so submitted either on the facts or the law, and shall in no way have the character of an arbitral award.
Sida 406 - Each of the High Contracting Parties reserves to itself or to the several State governments on the one side ai.d the Dominion or Provincial Governments on the other, as the case may be, subject to any treaty provisions now existing with respect thereto, the exclusive jurisdiction and control over the use and diversion, whether temporary or permanent, of all waters on its own side of the line which in their natural channels would flow across the boundary or into boundary waters...
Sida 406 - Parties may adopt rules and regulations governing the use of such canals within its own territory and may charge tolls for the use thereof, but all such rules and regulations and all tolls charged shall apply alike to the subjects or citizens of the High Contracting Parties and the ships, vessels, and boats of both of the High Contracting Parties, and they shall be placed on terms of equality in the use thereof.

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