Category: waterway

Missouri’s Republican Congressional Delegation Demands EPA Stop New Waterway Regulations

January 31, 2023
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Missouri’s Republican congressional delegation sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency requesting an immediate stop to a new Waters of the United States rule. The letter was signed by Sens. Josh Hawley and Eric Schmitt and Reps. Ann Wagner, Eric Burlison, Sam Graves, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Jason Smith, and Mark Alford. The legislators wrote the…

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Erie Canal: How a Team of Self-Taught Engineers Constructed the Longest Artificial Waterway of the 19th Century

July 18, 2022
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Boom! Canon fire echoed across the state of New York on October 26, 1825. Men listened carefully at their posts, firing their canon once they heard the distant sound of another. This relay stretched from Buffalo to Manhattan, where the final canon proclaimed that the Seneca Chief had departed Buffalo and was making its way…

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