It is now second on the river only to the sprawling Yangzi River company.
While the river is only several inches deep at the bank, the middle of the river can be four to five feet deep in places and thick with boulders.
Two vehicles tumbled into the river but only minor injuries were reported.
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The Congo River is only about 30 to 50 yards wide here, and it looks like an average, mid-sized waterway rather than the vast, powerful one it will become.
What's more, the Patuxent River is only 75 yds. away, and the fish--with an air sac in its digestive system that allows it to absorb oxygen, and the ability to flop its way across small stretches of muddy land--could soon wriggle into the nation's waterways.
Developing Donlin Creek means barging equipment up the Kuskokwim River, navigable only six months of the year.
North Korea's presence is much less visible, even though the Tumen River border is only 27 km away.
For example, Latvia operates two major hydro-electric plants on the Daugava River which provide only half of Latvia's electricity needs.
NovaGold has tried to estimate for years how much it might cost to build a mine at Donlin, which requires barging equipment up the Kuskokwim River, navigable only six months of the year, in the face of extreme weather and environmentalists.
In the North East the flood situation has eased with only the River Wear at Chester-le-Street remaining on a severe warning.
As recently as the 1950s, there were as many as 500 cormorant fishermen working on the Li River, but now only a handful remain, mainly to stage shows for visitors.
And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.
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The ephemeral Tsauchab River flows nearby, but only during rainy periods.
But Laurence drowned when he was 43 (a ship bringing him home sank after a collision in the St Lawrence river) and Henry was only six years older when he died of anaemia in 1919.
Thus were exposed not only the Snake River Potato Growers but the hard-cider producers of New York and Vermont (who were to be allowed to pay lower federal excise taxes) and the sheriffs of Mississippi, who were to be allowed a new tax deduction for business expenses.
Traveling up and down our river, looking for clues that only I could unfold.
Reuters found a dealer in Toms River, New Jersey who sold only one Volt in the past year, versus the 90-100 conventional Chevrolets it sells each month.
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For example, the facility at Pitsea in Britain, on the banks of the River Thames near London, accepts only solid municipal and commercial waste, because European law prohibits the mingling of liquid and solid waste, and of hazardous and non-hazardous waste.
He need only look across the Hudson River to New York to see how well that works.
The long-range goal calls for restoring the river in a way that benefits not only salmon, but also society in general.
Not making electricity is not an option on the river, the BPA argues, because only a limited amount of water can be kept out of turbines and spilled over federal dams.
Mobridge, so named because it has the only bridge over the Missouri River for 150 miles, is home to 3, 800, yet it is the commercial center for 27, 000 people within a 60-mile radius.
Two other vehicles plunged into the Skagit River, but all three occupants escaped with only minor injuries.
And it is not only the water in the Yellow River, which flows through nine provinces, that is at risk from contamination.
The problem is that the fish that formed the base of the hatchery brood stock used to replenish salmon in Maine's rivers came from the Penobscot River until 1992, when state officials began a river-specific stocking program that placed descendents only in rivers their stock came from.
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But today, only the Big Bend portion of the river can support the large crane population.
It is not only on New York's East River that emotions are running high.
"Having only to come across the water (River Tamar) from Torpoint is very handy for my wife, " he said.
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