On Apr 8, 2005 10:23 AM, Rick DeNatale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I also > beleive that they have pretty much cut the falls off pretty much > completely at least once when they did some work to stem erosion of > the falls themselves.
Just to correct myself, they CAN'T completely turn off the falls with the hydro control dam, but in 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers built special coffer dams to cut off the flow over the American falls to study the rock and see if they might remove some of the rocks at the base of the falls, which , in the end they didn't do. http://www.iaw.com/~falls/faq.html#where The amount of water diverted for hydro generation is controlled by international agreement and carefully controlled. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
