Explore: Canal Lock

A lock is a device used for raising and lowering boats, ships and other watercraft between stretches of water of different levels on river and canal waterways

United States. When leaving the canal, boats must also traverse the Black Rock Lock to reach Lake Erie or the Troy Federal Lock to reach the tidal Hudson.

southernmost lock, (Lock 8 – the 'Guard' or 'Control' lock) is 349.9 m (1,148 ft) in length. The Garden City Skyway passes over the canal, restricting

of the ship canal at The Soo from 1906 to 1925. It was officially decommissioned in 2010 at the same time as the Davis Lock. A new lock is under construction

could serve as portions of the canal. Where it made economic sense to do so, such as lock widths or portions of the canal through narrow rock or across

Providence lock looking west into the old canal bed. Restoration of the mill and store at Providence. Gronauer Lock No 2 "Wabash and Erie Canal lock was discovered

A control lock, guard lock or stop lock differs from a normal canal lock in that its primary purpose is controlling variances in water level rather than

Industrial Canal at its approximate midway point between the river and the lake. In 1944, the federal government leased the Industrial Canal lock and the

The Inner Harbor Navigation Canal Lock—commonly known as Industrial Canal Lock or simply Industrial Lock—is a navigation lock in New Orleans. It connects

The Huddersfield Narrow Canal is an inland waterway in northern England. It runs just under 20 miles (32 km) from Lock 1E at the rear of the University