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The Ishibune-bashi Bridge extends for 96 meters across the Minamiaki River as it flows through the Akigawa Valley in the northeast corner of Tokyo Prefecture ,Japan. The bridge offers great views of the valley below, and is especially popular during autumn as the surrounding mountainside foliage changes colors.
The First Thai–Lao Friendship Bridge is a bridge over the Mekong, connecting Nong Khai Province and the city of Nong Khai in Thailand with Vientiane Prefecture in Laos. The Lao capital city Vientiane is approximately 20 km (12 mi) from the bridge.
The Roosevelt Bridge bends and winds it's way across the St. Lucie River in Stuart, Florida.
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This bridge is on Commissioners Street between Don Roadway and Munition Street, across the new river valley. We designed this bridge to accommodate the higher, faster waters expected to flow beneath it during a major storm. The sidewalk also features some wider areas meant to provide a lookout over the new river valley.
Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal World Heritage
Site.
The Hand Carving:
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This is a two metre tall
Sculpture of a Hand carved from limestone by Artist - Anthony Lysycia.
Located at the head of the aqeduct's towpath near Trevor Basin.
The sculpture was created to represent the many labourers who toiled to build the aqeduct and the Llangollen canal, with the design depicting local industry and the effort of the workers.
It was installed as part of the aqeduct's history.
Beautiful vivid color rich red and orange sunrise over Illawarra coast with Sea Cliff Bridge snaking around the headland
The lights and reflection of the Roosevelt Bridge turn the St. Lucie River gold at night in Stuart, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at tom-claud.pixels.com
A boat navigates the waters under the Stuart Causeway in Stuart, Florida.
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Pontcysyllte Aqueduct & Canal World Heritage Site.
11 miles of stunning canal and countryside and spanning two countries, along Aqeducts, tunnels and viaducts.
The whole length of the site has been designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument of National Importance and an area of outstanding natural beauty.
Barton Swing Aqueduct, Barton-upon-Irwell
I've posted a full history and tech write-up on a previous upload, but was never really happy with the actual image on account of both bridges opening, which I've never seen before in my life and I got all a bit excited.
Anyway, for those that missed that pleasure, here's a very brief summary...
The Barton Swing Aqueduct is a moveable navigable aqueduct in Barton-upon-Irwell, Greater Manchester, England. It carries the Bridgewater Canal across the Manchester Ship Canal. The swinging action allows large vessels using the ship canal to pass underneath and smaller craft, both narrowboats and broad-beam barges to cross over the top. The aqueduct, the first and only swing aqueduct in the world, is a Grade II* listed building, and considered a major feat of Victorian civil engineering. Designed by Sir Edward Leader Williams and built by Andrew Handyside and Company of Derby, the swing bridge opened in 1894 and remains in regular use.
One of the giant lifting machines that make up one of the largest movable flood barriers in the world. Taken just before dawn, one a morning with very little colour or texture in the sky.
Designed by Robert Stephenson and opened by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert on 29 August 1850, the Royal Border Bridge spans the River Tweed between Berwick of Tweed and Tweedmouth.
At 150m long, the longest bridge of any Chinese imperial garden; built in 1750 and named after its seventeen arches
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A candid street portrait of a construction or civil engineering worker who stands in the middle of the street, smokes a cigarette, and looks at some distant object while touching a chest pocket of his working wear with his right hand. Black and white version.
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On the way back from Ticino to Grison we passed the San Bernardino tunnel. It was opened in 1967 and is 6.5 km long (21,000 feet). There are long stretches that are completely straight.
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Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. Originally known as Boulder Dam from 1933, it was officially renamed Hoover Dam, for President Herbert Hoover, by a joint resolution of Congress in 1947. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned the dam over to the federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule. Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States by volume (when it is full). The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi (48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover Dam is a major tourist attraction; nearly a million people tour the dam each year. The heavily traveled U.S. Route 93 (US 93) ran along the dam's crest until October 2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened. As the United States developed the Southwest, the Colorado River was seen as a potential source of irrigation water. An initial attempt at diverting the river for irrigation purposes occurred in the late 1890s, when land speculator William Beatty built the Alamo Canal just north of the Mexican border; the canal dipped into Mexico before running to a desolate area Beatty named the Imperial Valley. Though water from the Imperial Canal allowed for the widespread settlement of the valley, the canal proved expensive to maintain. After a catastrophic breach that caused the Colorado River to fill the Salton Sea, the Southern Pacific Railroad spent $3 million in 1906–07 to stabilize the waterway, an amount it hoped in vain would be reimbursed by the Federal Government. Even after the waterway was stabilized, it proved unsatisfactory because of constant disputes with landowners on the Mexican side of the border. As the technology of electric power transmission improved, the Lower Colorado was considered for its hydroelectric-power potential. In 1902, the Edison Electric Company of Los Angeles surveyed the river in the hope of building a 40-foot (12 m) rock dam which could generate 10,000 horsepower (7,500 kW). However, at the time, the limit of transmission of electric power was 80 miles (130 km), and there were few customers (mostly mines) within that limit. Edison allowed land options it held on the river to lapse—including an option for what became the site of Hoover Dam. In the following years, the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), known as the Reclamation Service at the time, also considered the Lower Colorado as the site for a dam. Service chief Arthur Powell Davis proposed using dynamite to collapse the walls of Boulder Canyon, 20 miles (32 km) north of the eventual dam site, into the river. The river would carry off the smaller pieces of debris, and a dam would be built incorporating the remaining rubble. In 1922, after considering it for several years, the Reclamation Service finally rejected the proposal, citing doubts about the unproven technique and questions as to whether it would in fact save money.
This is the Union Canal near Newbridge, Edinburgh. Having just crossed the Almond Valley on the 5 arched Almond Aqueduct, the canal turns east and enters Clifton Cutting. The towpath here is rarely dry, as the drainage system in the cutting is long due an overhaul.
where the river turia once flowed through the heart of valencia, now strides a figure across the reclaimed canvas of the former riverbed, transformed into a verdant artery of public parks. the bridge above, a remnant of past crossings, now casts geometric shadows on this grand urban garden. it's a place where the city's history is etched in every contour and corner, a seamless blend of Valencia's past and present. graffiti tags echo the voices of a vibrant community, while the verdant stretch whispers the tales of water that once carved its path here. as the city breathes and buzzes, its inhabitants move rhythmically in the riverbed-turned-park, a confluence of nature's resilience and human ingenuity.