It will also reduce flood risk in the area by increasing the volume of water that can safely flow through the river.
On the eve of Thanksgiving, several days before the World Trade Center line reopened, Mr. Lejda and a colleague walked through the river tube, he said, hanging up speed limit signs in the tunnels, since the train operators would be without the lighted signals that usually signal when and where to slow down.
Opening the spillway will redirect floodwaters from the Mississippi River through the Atchafalaya River Basin, which runs between Baton Rouge and Lafayette south toward Morgan City.
River dwelling tribes that number less than a thousand strong worry that when the diversion is through, the river will no longer be navigable and may see some Xingu tributaries dry out for good, impacting their way of life and a key route to the city of Altamira nearby.
The raindrops blown a couple of miles west of our ranch would land in creeks that percolated through the Columbia River system into the Pacific, whereas the water in Feely Creek, our creek, was blessed with the task of traveling a thousand miles more, all the way down to the bayous of Louisiana before spilling through the loamy delta into the Gulf of Mexico.
"What we've found is that some of what we do to the land - we plough the fields and we add fertiliser - doesn't go through to the river for decades, " said Dr Howden.
"Jump out now, " Ashley urged, as the raft maneuvered effortlessly through the roiling river.
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The highway and rail project is slicing through the Mzymta River watershed, felling hundreds of mature trees.
This will eventually wash through to the river, as will nitrogen applied to those fields in the form of fertilisers.
Preservation and conservation of cultural heritage is another major concern as major World Heritage sites such as Mohenjodaro stand in the path of the floodwaters descending through the Indus River Valley.
We scrambled on and found ourselves on flat rocks at the place where the small river through the forest disappeared over the edge.
Also nearby is its water-park sister, Aquatica, and the worlds-away Discovery Cove, where a limited number of guests enjoy a day of lounging on a private beach, swimming with the dolphins and floating along the lazy river through the bird aviary.
In suburban Chicago, which got up to 7 inches of rain in a 24-hour period ending Thursday, record levels of water were moving through the Des Plaines River past heavily populated western suburbs and into the Illinois River to the south.
Jackson Hole Whitewater organises half day excursions on the class III Snake River with some big rapids through the limestone cliffs of Snake River Canyon.
Labour remains cheap, and the Mekong River running through Cambodia allows the country to benefit from schemes to develop the entire river basin.
The landscape is lifeless, except for a narrow cut of the Menomonee River carving through the vacant Reed Street Yards just south of downtown.
The effects of these demented policies have been exacerbated in recent years by Turkey's diversion of Syria's main water source, the Euphrates River, through the construction of dams upstream, and by two years of unrelenting drought.
Under the proposal examined by Parsons Brinckerhoff, the No. 7 train would cross the river through two new tunnels and connect with the existing commuter rail station in Secaucus.
Mr. VINCENT SANTOS (Resident, San Francisco): (Through translator) The river is responsible for everything.
At The Haycock Hotel at Wansford its cellar flooded after water seeped through the soil from the nearby overflowing river.
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Pumps, working in tandem with sluice gates, were designed to allow the Hatfield brook, which runs through the village, to join the river during floods.
Twice yearly, an accident of solstice, orientation and geometry sends golden shafts of setting sun straight through the grid from river to river, west to east, an occasion that would be celebrated by people less in a hurry.
The colonel has expensive hobbies: he is building a river through the Sahara, and wants to start work on a railway connecting the country's coastal towns.
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And echoing through the ancient temple is the sound of a river flowing even beneath this layer, running through a Republic-era drain.
His first feat: diverting the powerful river through four mammoth tunnels drilled into the solid rock of Black Canyon.
From there, head to the main river that cuts through the town, the Tungabhadra, to watch pilgrims and locals bathe down by the ghats.
Now, at 43, he and his wife, Julie , have bought two ranches in southwest Montana-the 1, 800-acre Beaverhead Ranch, with 5 miles of the Beaverhead River running through it, and the 2, 000-acre Big Hole Ranch, which rises 1, 500 feet from the Big Hole River up to grazing land for a herd of 400 elk that borders a national forest.
Senior coalition commanders in Kabul said their troops could push through the villages and farms along the Helmand River in a matter of days.
They take the elephants off, and they walk them through the Queens Midtown Tunnel underneath the East River, along 34th Street to Madison Square Garden.
On a recent trip, guests at the lodge shuffled down the path, through the scented tropical garden and onto the river bank, where they clambered into launches and headed off into the shallows of the New River.
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