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This is a simplified but detailed sketch or map of the Soo Locks. These locks allow access to the minor or lower Great Lakes from Lake Superior. Thus, for example, large freighters filled with iron ore, coal, and other minerals used in manufacturing steel may be transported from the iron and coal mines ringing the [...]

Leaving considerations of potential damage to the St. Lucie estuary aside, the Corps continues to slowly and methodically discharge Lake Okeechobee water to both east and west Florida coasts to reduce the possibility of a catastrophic breach of the Hoover Dike walls and damage to hundred of thousands of acres of farm and environmentally sensitive [...]

In Part II, we will explore in depth the Atlantic World, the Atlantic Ocean, islands like Bermuda, Jamaica, Latin America and Central America, an continents like the Americas, Mexico, updates on the Panama Camal, Great Britain, Ireland, the Canary  Islands, and such other Island as may strike one's fancy, human rights, women's right, technology, and [...]

https://vimeo.com/allisonrandolph/estuarystory Every year, in the few months before the rainy season hits south Florida, the Army Corps of Engineers begins the delicate and sensitive process of lowering  Lake Okeechobee by three to four feet. The Corps utilizes two routes.  The first is the Caloosahatchie River estuary on the west side of the Lake into the [...]