This would normally be a section of water wider than the general canal.

When a section of the canal needs to be sealed off so it can be drained for maintenance stop planks are frequently used.

On more modern canals, " guard locks " or gates were sometimes placed to allow a section of canal to be quickly closed off, either for maintenance, or to prevent a major loss of water due to a canal breach.

The project began in 605 and was completed in 609, although much of the work combined older canals, the oldest section of the canal existing since at least 486 BC.

This section downstream of the Seaway is not a continuous canal, but rather it consists of several stretches of navigable channels within the river, a number of locks, as well as canals along the banks of the St. Lawrence River to bypass several rapids and dams along the way.

Traditionally this section of the canal is called " Slapton Fields " or just " The Fields " by boaters.

After rising through Cosgrove Lock, ( and passing the start of the abandoned Buckingham Arm ) another long level section brings the canal to the bottom of the Stoke Bruerne flight of seven locks.

The canal ’ s central portions stretched from Yangzhou to Luoyang ; the section between the Yangtze and the Huai continued to the Shanyang River ; and the next section connected the Huai to the Yellow River and was called the Tongji Channel.

To ensure smooth travel of grain shipments, Transport Commissioner Liu Yan ( in office from 763 – 779 ) had special river barge ships designed and constructed to fit the depths of each section of the entire canal.

This southernmost section of the canal runs from Hangzhou in Zhejiang, where the canal connects with the Qiantang River, to Zhenjiang in Jiangsu, where it meets the Yangtze.

In the 1950s a new canal was dug to the south of the old summit section.

The old summit section is now dry, while the new canal holds too little water to be navigable.

The fifth section of the canal extends from Linqing to Tianjin, following the course of the canalised Wei River.

Though the canal nominally crosses the watersheds of five river systems, in reality the variation between these is so low that it has only a single summit section.

The canal was closed on 1 July 1854, and the lock and aqueducts on the upper section were dismantled.

After Governor Bob Graham initiated the Save Our Everglades campaign in 1983, the first section of the canal was backfilled in 1986.

After the canal bridge there is the downtown section of Main Street.

The western section of Venray is also straddled by part of the Peel-Raam Line, defensive works consisting out of a canal and bunkers dating to the World War II period.

It is uninhabited and separated from the remainder of the northern section by an unnamed canal that cannot be navigated in a power boat.

The middle section of the canal, from Salina to Utica was the first to open, in 1820, and elaborate celebrations were held.

The canal section spanning from Cleveland to Massillon was completed in 1828.

The hamlet of Port Penn rose up along the section of the canal that passed through Muncy Creek Township.

Had I been in an all-married section I would have missed this, and I believe that this single aspect has been of great personal value to me ''.

If it were not for judicial development of certain exceptions, this section would prohibit a suit for refund by an acquiring corporation for taxes paid by a transferor corporation, even though the reorganization meets the requirements of section 381(a).

The transaction presumably would have qualified under section 368(a)(1) as a contractual reorganization, followed by a section 332 liquidation, but not under section 368(a)(1) as a statutory merger of consolidation.

The first reason would never apply to a reorganization transfer which meets the conditions of section 381(a), which is the only type presently under discussion.

For example, property `` used in the trade or business '' of a transferor corporation, as defined in section 1231, presumably would not retain its special status following a non-taxable reorganization if it is not so used in the business of the acquiring corporation.

He would assign one of the rescue trucks to the Riverside section of the city and the other to the Rumford area.

Colangelo's group was so certain that they would be awarded a franchise that they held a name-the-team contest for it ; they took out a full-page ad in the sports section of the February 13, 1995 edition of the state's leading newspaper, the Arizona Republic.

Sarah Martin later stated in the Q & A section of their website that it would be a 14 track album.

However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.

Funan and its succeeding societies which occupied this section of Southeast Asia would remain mainly Hindu in religion for about 900 years.

The general formula is set out in section 38 ( 1 ), known as the " 7 / 50 formula ", requires: ( a ) assent from both the House of Commons and the Senate ; ( b ) the approval of two-thirds of the provincial legislatures ( at least seven provinces ) representing at least 50 % of the population ( effectively, this would include at least Quebec or Ontario, as they are the most populous provinces ).

" Some minor repairs were done to the section believed to be the tomb of Jesus almost immediately after 1009, but a true attempt at restoration would have to wait for decades.

To counter this, Atchison proposed that the area be organized and that the section of the Missouri Compromise banning slavery there be repealed in favor of popular sovereignty, under which the settlers in each territory would decide themselves whether slavery would be allowed.

Most libraries create a separate fiction section to allow shelving in a more generalized fashion than Dewey provides for, or to avoid the space that would be taken up in the 800s, or simply to allow readers to find preferred authors by alphabetical order of surname.

For example, a firewall designed to meet National Fire Protection Agency, ( NFPA ), 221-09 section A. 5. 7 which indicates an average temperature of 800 ° F, is not designed to withstand higher temperatures such as would be present in higher challenge fires, and as a result would fail in a time less than the wall rating.

A section of the conservatives had always been against democracy ; others had approved parliamentarianism since the revolutionary reform of 1906, but after the crisis of 1917 and the outbreak of the 1918 war, had concluded that empowering the common people would not work.

The National Defense Authorization Act for 2012 would have authorized indefinite detention of suspected terrorists, but enforcement of the relevant section was blocked by a federal court on May 16, 2012, ruling on a suit brought by a number of private citizens, including Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and Birgitta Jonsdottir.

He argued that if a focus of a conic section were allowed to move along the line joining the foci, the geometric form would morph or degenerate, one into another.

Though he did not realize it yet, translating much of what became the Latin Vulgate Bible would take many years and be his most important achievement ( see Writings – Translations section below ).