The Year The Army Stopped Niagara Falls

WOW.

"The Year The Army Stopped Niagara Falls

In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers accomplished an awesome feat: They turned off Niagara Falls. They did it to clean up the area, and check for structural integrity. Here are pictures of this bizarre episode in structural engineering history.

These pictures were taken by tourists who visited the dry falls in 1969. Environmental design blog Mammoth explains the context:

For six months in the winter and fall of 1969, Niagara's American Falls were "de-watered", as the Army Corps of Engineers conducted a geological survey of the falls' rock face, concerned that it was becoming destabilized by erosion."...........................






http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsgs ... htype=Next

Thanks for the memory

I grew up near Niagara Falls, my dad was part of the Niagara Mohawk power project (actually did the drafts for the power station itself). I went home to visit when he told me they had shut down the falls, it was eerie to see it dry, and so quiet in town where normally there was a constant roar and a never ending mist in the air. It's also pretty cool to see the falls the years it freezes over...gigantic ice sculpture.

I was in high school in Cleveland. Not that far a drive but this is the first I have ever heard of it.

Amazing that they can control that much water!

Man controlling mother nature, LOL It doesn't seem right.

Amazing. Read the link. How did they divert the water to do this?