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       Erie Canal Was Built With Raw Labor & Amateur Engineers
   DIR By: Michael Caswell
       Date: July 18, 2021, 4:28 pm
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       If you go to this site, you can read all about it.
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       Once the fact is established that these people had no clue about
       what they were doing, one should rapidly begin to consider that
       there MAY be  few faults in their overall design.
       It would therefore be reasonable to consider the views of people
       in the Canal Corporation who have been grappling with the
       problems created by this lack of knowledge and listen to their
       almost 200 years of knowledge accumulated on canals, dams, and
       impounding water.
       When the Canal Corporation tells you they have a SAFETY problem,
       why is it that a certain element of the community seems to think
       they are stupid and don't know what they are talking about?
       Embankment dam construction these days is a science.
       Math and physics prevail; so we should listen to those people
       who use those tools to repair embankments, not a bunch of
       amateurs who 'think' they know best.
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       Erie Canal Was Built With Raw Labor & Amateur Engineers
   DIR By: Michael Caswell
       Date: January 2, 2022, 2:07 pm
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       The man-made waterway was designed by an untrained  amateur crew
       of self-taught local engineers that included a few inexperienced
       surveyors and at least one local math teacher.  The 40-foot wide
       canal was dug and the locks were constructed by the raw manpower
       of an estimated 50,000 laborers
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       Surveying The Erie Canal
   DIR By: Michael Caswell
       Date: February 5, 2022, 4:00 am
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