Sea Dog wrote: Very interesting tale.
Devoid of facts but, interesting never the less!
Why do you say it is devoid of facts?
"There is a system in place that if Security finds someone trying to go over the falls in a barrel or something else, they can send an alarm, and that will trigger all the generation systems to come online as well as open diversion tunnels, so that all the water over the falls will stop, then they can rescue the person doing something stupid"
And here all this time I thought that they had Mighty Mouse in a little helicopter on stand by to pluck the barrels out of the river!
It better be Mighty Mouse and a helicopter because that other deal has never worked yet.
wny_pat wrote: Thanks Grant! I have been up to the Niagara River many many times and never seen the "International Control Dam". It is not exactly a well known landmark. But living only 60 miles from there I also know people who have never been there. Now when you say dam, my 60+ year old mind thinks Hoover or Kinzua, both of which completely cross the watercourse. And I would guess that any solid pier that channels water into a small area seperate from the larger body of water could be called a dam, mainly because I am at a loss for words for anything else to call it except a dike maybe. I'm glad we can laugh together about this, because it is what makes the world go round. Oh, those engineers, lets not go there. I can show you a flood control dike that was built to the high water level, but they made the channel narrower and forgot about the water they were displacing. That water had to be pumped back into the channel once the water in the channel goes down. Good engineering by the Corp of Engineers.
Would you mind not being so good natured about it? You almost make me feel bad that I gave you a bit of a hard time over it.
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