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New Updates on the Holley North Dam Restoration
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 28, 2019, 9:58 am
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Here's a synopsis of the work being done in Holley, NY... thank
you STCC for posting new photos
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So the Embankment Section outlined in this STCC post would
qualify under the latest National Dam Safety Program Act of 2006
as a Dam.
And in case you are wondering... this dam section holds back
approximately 21 MILLION gallons of water... and it's on TWO
side of the Erie Canal.
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Here's the map of the section being discussed here... notice
the area to the south called Holley Falls... which is not
natural as all... part of the Erie Canal waterway
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HTML http://nyfalls.com/waterfalls/holley-falls/
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#Post#: 391--------------------------------------------------
Re: New Updates on the Holley North Dam Restoration
DIR By: Michael Caswell
Date: March 28, 2019, 11:03 am
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By Jove! I do believe she's got it!
At last - at last Ms Agte has seen the light! She declares -
"IT LOOKS LIKE A DAM!"
1 · Like · React · More · Yesterday at 9:22 PM
Elizabeth R. Agte
Looks like a dam.
3 · Like · More · Yesterday at 9:55 PM
Well done! Do you know why it looks like a dam Lizzy? That's
because it IS a dam!
#Post#: 392--------------------------------------------------
Re: New Updates on the Holley North Dam Restoration
DIR By: Erie Canaller
Date: March 28, 2019, 11:30 am
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It looks like there are two dams in this spot and both must go
over Sandy Creek East Branch. That's a bigger stream in this
area from the looks of it.
I still see trees along the trail here so once grass is growing
it will look pretty good I think. Actually looks like they did a
really nice job smoothing out the slope, does anyone know if
they changed the angle of the bank?
Thanks for sharing, looks like what the Canal folks said it
would. It is a dam.
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Re: New Updates on the Holley North Dam Restoration
DIR By: Doug K
Date: March 28, 2019, 1:01 pm
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I'm trying to find where I saw this or heard this little Erie
Canal tidbit
The Great Embankment in Pittsford is the largest earthen type
dam on the canal, but not the highest. That I heard belongs to
the Town of Holley. I seem to remember the GE was 73' and Holley
was 78' tall, but not nearly as wide as the Great Embankment at
5280' wide.
I am not sure where it is though, have ask the CC., Canal
Corporation.
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