Author: United States
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway Project
Author: United States
Publisher:
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 12
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The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Waterway and Power Project
Author: John McGregor Littell
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 114
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A Major Impending Project
Author: Thomas James Walsh
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Languages : en
Pages : 15
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Survey of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project : Message from the President of the United States Transmitting Reports on the Proposed Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Project
Author: United States. Interdepartmental board on the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence project
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Basin
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
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References to the Great Lakes-Saint Lawrence waterway project
Author: Everett Eugene Edwards
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Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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St. Lawrence Waterway Project
Author: United States. St. Lawrence commission
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Canals
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Facts about Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project
Author:
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Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Lakes
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Great Lakes-to-ocean Waterways
Author: Eugene Stuart Gregg
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Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Category : Inland navigation
Languages : en
Pages : 158
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Pandora's Locks
Author: Jeff Alexander
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609171977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.
Publisher: MSU Press
ISBN: 1609171977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
The St. Lawrence Seaway was considered one of the world's greatest engineering achievements when it opened in 1959. The $1 billion project-a series of locks, canals, and dams that tamed the ferocious St. Lawrence River-opened the Great Lakes to the global shipping industry. Linking ports on lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario to shipping hubs on the world's seven seas increased global trade in the Great Lakes region. But it came at an extraordinarily high price. Foreign species that immigrated into the lakes in ocean freighters' ballast water tanks unleashed a biological shift that reconfigured the world's largest freshwater ecosystems. Pandora's Locks is the story of politicians and engineers who, driven by hubris and handicapped by ignorance, demanded that the Seaway be built at any cost. It is the tragic tale of government agencies that could have prevented ocean freighters from laying waste to the Great Lakes ecosystems, but failed to act until it was too late. Blending science with compelling personal accounts, this book is the first comprehensive account of how inviting transoceanic freighters into North America's freshwater seas transformed these wondrous lakes.