Album: <font size=-1>2001-05-28</font> dam no1


photos:minnesota:2001-05-28 dam no1
I took my bike to explore further away from home and ran into this dam five miles down the river. It is the northern most dam in the 9-foot channel project and sports two parallel locks.


dcp 0622 In 1923 the government granted Ford a license to build a hydro power plant on the east bank provided they supply the lock with electricity for operation.	dcp 0623 For scale, the yellow railings on the lock doors are about 4 feet high.	dcp 0624 The observation area at this lock is very extensive. The public can walk above the lower gates and across to the far fall wall. Pretty cool.	dcp 0625 You can see the observation walkway there. The locks are controlled from that tower.

dcp 0626	dcp 0627 It takes a lot of water to fill that up!	dcp 0628	dcp 0629

dcp 0630	dcp 0631 Those trees are really on a small island. It had been raining a lot the previous week though.	dcp 0632	dcp 0633

dcp 0634	dcp 0635	dcp 0636 Looking over the falls...	dcp 0637

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dcp 0642 Going down...	dcp 0643	dcp 0644	dcp 0645 It took less than 10 minutes for that whole tank to empty!



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