And the canal became a lifeline for communication, with government couriers running messages up and down the waterway.
Video from CNN affiliate WTOM showed the boat perched on the waterway's rocky shore.
Efforts to eliminate waterway dead zones and algal blooms nationwide have focused on pollution from manure.
But competition from the railways damaged trade and the waterway gradually fell into disrepair.
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Volunteers have already spent years clearing a significant stretch of the waterway between Chippenham and Lacock.
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Madeleine Lynn has compiled what amounts to a biography of China's most notorious waterway.
And they warned they could shut the waterway again if water levels rise to 62.5 feet.
In 1980, he sensed that Iran was weak and attacked across the Shatt al-Arab waterway.
To the north lies Brigantine Beach, just across a narrow waterway full of boats.
During Katrina, the storm surge coming up the Intracoastal Waterway destroyed a 4, 000-foot long floodwall.
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And a canal official told state media that the waterway was functioning at full capacity.
The waterway linked Lake Erie with the Hudson River, enabling traffic to bypass the British-controlled lower St.
If you live on the coast, on a floodplain, near a river, or on an island waterway.
Alliance leader David Ford said there should be a proper management structure for such an important waterway.
She told them she would visit Galata Bridge, which spans Istanbul's Golden Horn waterway, to take photos.
The waterway is a vital shipping route and remains one of Egypt's main sources of foreign revenue.
Since the early 1990s, the harbor has been as healthy as a very urban waterway can be.
Volunteers have spent the past few years clearing a two-mile stretch of the waterway from Pewsham to Reybridge.
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Other work being carried out includes public artwork and a waterway linking Grangemouth to the Scottish canal network.
Tuesday as a result of circulating-water pumps being affected by high river level and debris in the waterway.
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Officials have not confirmed this, but it would follow a wearily familiar pattern for shipowners using the waterway.
Stormwater runoff, caused by rainwater running off impervious pavement, is a principal cause of urban waterway pollution nationwide.
The presence of decomposing humans in the waterway is not just limited to the area around the Gansu capital.
McClendon points out that fracking has never killed anyone or destroyed a waterway.
Brown used the Mud Pond waterway across Brandreth land despite the landowner's no-trespassing sign and cable across the stream.
The 4.5-tonne spill at the Stanlow refinery in Ellesmere Port on Sunday morning led to the waterway being closed.
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Gradually, these expanded to the eastern side of the Shatt al Basra waterway.
Anadarko Petroleum has already had its headquarters there for years, but is currently building a second tower on the Waterway.
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This will put the ELN within striking distance of the country's largest oil refinery and its principal waterway, highway and railway.
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