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November 23, 2022 - "This span is an iconic connection between the historic district of the City of Dublin and a new commercial district across the Scioto River to the east, enhancing the character of the surrounding historic neighborhood with a modern iconic element. The bridge connects parkland 40 feet below the bridge deck with the eastern bank of the Scioto. Located in the Midwest, the design is for a two span (350-foot each), 700-foot total length by 14 foot wide pedestrian bridge. The bridge deck is “S” shaped in plan with a radius of 500 foot and is anchored into the earth at the embankments." Previous information from Endrestudio bridge designers website: www.endrestudio.com/project-dublin.html
Downtown, Manhattan, NYC.
Anyone know the names of these buildings? They're located in the Wall Street area just behind Battery Park.
It was truly awe-inspiring to be engulfed by these buildings and naturally led in to the vast open space of Battery Park's water front.
This is the Veterans Bridge in Chesapeake, Virginia. It carries US Route 17, and replaced a much shorter bridge that opened, on average, 16 times a day.
...on the wall, which towers' relections are denied to us all?
7 WTC, Downtown Manhattan, New York City.
This is the Veterans Bridge in Chesapeake, Virginia. It carries US Route 17, and replaced a much shorter bridge that opened, on average, 16 times a day.
This view of the last partially intact lock on the Third Welland Canal was taken in January 2007. At the right of this photo is an abondoned car. These wood gates are only visible in the winter time when the Fourth Welland Canal is drained.
This view of the last partially intact lock on the Third Welland Canal was taken in January 2007. At the right of this photo is an abondoned car. These wood gates are only visible in the winter time when the Fourth Welland Canal is drained. A sunken ship is located at the far end of this lock just past the wooden gate.
The 17 State Street building, downtown Manhattan, NYC.
Located just behind the Staten Island Ferry terminal opposite Battery Park the spectacular curvature on this building is stunning.
To infinity, and beyond!
This view of the last partially intact lock on the Third Welland Canal was taken in January 2007. At the right of this photo is an abondoned car. These wood gates are only visible in the winter time when the Fourth Welland Canal is drained.
Time for the hardworking Chrismobile, the famous Ford Mondeo, to take a break and enjoy the view.
This is the southwestern end of the Afsluitdijk in Noord Holland.
June 29, 2017 - We just walked down the hill from Jar Hill Observation Platform and we are level now with the road that crosses the enormous Three Gorges Dam. Unfortunately it was a restricted area and we couldn't cross the dam via foot or in our bus. We are now headed to the city of Wuhan, China where we will spend the evening then fly to our last destination which is Hong Kong.
Truscott Brine Lake
Located in north Texas, this reservoir is part of the Red River Chloride Control Project, which was designed to reduce chloride contamination in the region.
Many, many, many years ago much of the area that is now north Texas, western Oklahoma, and southwestern Kansas was a large inland sea.
While the saltwater ocean is now gone, the salt remains, and natural springs pump thousands of gallons of saltwater into the area’s rivers and streams.
The challenge of the Red River Chloride Control Project is to significantly reduce the Red River's salinity to make the area’s water usable.
Many assume we remove the salt from the river water, but we don’t. The saltwater is actually diverted to Truscott Brine Lake where it evaporates.
That diversion is a fascinating process that begins more than 20 miles above the lake at a dam site and pump station.
There, an inflatable dam – basically a big rubber bladder – sits on a concrete weir that crosses the river.
During dry times, the dam is inflated to capture saltwater from the springs that flow into the river. The water then travels through a 22-mile pipeline that traverses the rugged and rocky west Texas terrain.
First it's pumped seven miles uphill to the highest elevation. From there, gravity carries the water downhill to an evaporation spray field, where the water is released from the pipeline through 40 spray nozzles. This spray process provides a higher evaporation rate than that which would occur if the water were just allowed to flow out of the pipeline and into the lake. The evaporation field is often a field of rainbows; it’s an unusual, quite alluring sight with haunting sounds.
All the saltwater that doesn’t evaporate at the spray field then makes its way into Truscott Brine Lake. The deep blue water of the lake has more salt content than the ocean. It’s even home to some saltwater fish!
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U.S. Army photos by Edward N. Johnson
Today Mags and I took our grandson Jack to visit the Falkirk Wheel and then on to Linlithgow Palace. The Falkirk Wheel was built with the help of Lottery Heritage Funds, at a cost of 17.5 million pounds, for the Millenium celebrations in 2000. It can rotate to lift 8 canal boats at a time (and the water they are floating in, from the Wheel Centre over 100 feet into the air. This means that instead of using about 8 locks to gain height, you can be travelling on your way on the canal in less than ten minutes. This was probably the biggest feat of British Engineering since the Victorian era. Here are three aspects of the Wheel from top ro bottom. It really is a tourist magnet.
I don't like FOX 54 because they won't let Directv give me East coast HD channels and their News sucks so I took a picture of their News Truck to let everyone see it. They keep it hid and only get it out late at night on Crescent and New Moon Phases.
*Update* Directv added local HD channels. The news still sucks.