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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dean nelson" data-source="post: 97474" data-attributes="member: 1305">First off just know I'm not trying to come off as a dick here ...and just because I'm talking about why the canal won't work doesn't mean your dream scenario isn't the same one I have as well. The last point is simply the canal is more or less finished long ago all the way till just after it crosses the Continental Divide for the second time north east of New Rockford The paralleling along the river is true but if you look closer you will see the the river you speak off is not the Sheyenne but in fact the James. The coal mine lake you mentioned is the headwaters of the sheyenne and is the lonetree I spoke of earlier. They split the canal off of the james side of the divide just a few miles east of lonetree after mixing the two which is a problem. At which point they literally had to put in an overpass for the water to clear the james as you can see in the pic below. Side note here....why didn't they just start the new Rockford leg of the Canal at this point instead of a few miles back costing millions and millions of dollars to build a short length of canal thats seems quite pointless. [ATTACH]5282[/ATTACH]The canal was built up enough to work long ago but so was the battle that shut it down in the first place around 30 years ago. In the end if the other side was able to shut it down that many years ago when lawyers and ANS had little impact on most projects can you imagine the insane level of red tape both nationally and internationally that this would create. This pic is the telling point I'm trying to convey here in that they won't cross the divide in the modern world so much so they block it off to stop it The red circle is the divide  (i circled it instead of putting a line in because theres a small low spot there that splits the two ridge lines at 1,900 feet. To the left you will see a dike they put in so no water could free flow past that point. I have a sneaking suspicion that that location was not chosen arbitrarily but in fact to keep the two basins separate. [ATTACH]5283[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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