Fisherman Ray Turner hand-built the V-shaped stone overflow dam, or weir, in the East Branch of the Delaware River in New York; its walls funnel eels into a wooden collecting rack.

渔民雷·特纳在纽约德拉瓦河东支流手工建造了这个V字形石头溢流堰，或称鱼梁。从它的墙壁漏过的鳗鱼进入木制的收集架内。

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To make an oil-collecting caisson, such a pile would be used as a collar around a funnel-topped tube that would sit over the leak.

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