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BUILDING NEW AQUEDUCT
Engineer Explains How it is to be Done When Canal is Enlarged
[Welland Telegraph, 18 March 1910]
Since the time this new Welland canal was first discussed it has been a matter of wonder with many people how the channel would be deepened at the aqueduct. This channel, by which the Welland River passes under the canal, is one of the most splendid pieces of masonry in Canada and the top of the mason work is barely more than fourteen feet from the top of the water. The problem is to deepen the channel to twenty-two feet.
Superintendent Weller says the undertaking is a comparatively simple one and will be carried on without stopping the passage of a single vessel.
The plan to be adopted will be as follows-A channel will be dredged across the canal below the present aqueduct and about the site of the old Beatty shops. This will be about twice the width of the canal about 65 feet deep. Huge masonry abutments will be built at either side with five channels twenty feet in diameter. Then there will be lowered into the trench steel pipe, five rows of it extending from the abutment on the one side to the abutment on the other. After this the pipes will be lined with cement and next the channel of the river will be diverted from the old aqueduct to the new one. This done the watercourses of the old aqueduct will be torn out after the ends are stopped and the necessary deepening will be made.
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