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The flats, swales, and natural levees of the Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps ecoregion include the slackwater areas along the Arkansas and Ouachita rivers, where water often collects into marshes, swamps, oxbow lakes, ponds, and sloughs.
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Police said the manatee was discovered around 1: 30 p-m at Lake McKellar, a slackwater lake off the Mississippi River south of Memphis.
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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The flats, swales, and natural levees of the Arkansas/Ouachita River Backswamps ecoregion include the slackwater areas along the Arkansas and Ouachita rivers, where water often collects into swamps, oxbow lakes, ponds, and sloughs.
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It is the best preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America demonstrating the use of this European technology in North America on a large scale.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Rideau Canal named World Heritage Site 2007
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At the start of the project, in 1826, the British chose the so-called “slackwater” technology to avoid the need for extensive excavation.
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It is the best preserved example of a slackwater canal in North America demonstrating the use of this European technology in North America on a large scale.
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At the start of the project, in 1826, the British chose the so-called “slackwater” technology to avoid the need for extensive excavation.
Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Rideau Canal named World Heritage Site 2007
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Erie county, then at the head of slackwater navigation on the Huron river.
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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One dark midnight, as the boat on which he was employed was leaving one of those long reaches of slackwater which abound in the Ohio and
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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We have constructed 4,650 miles of canals (including slackwater), at a cost of
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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