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The table below lists the locks on the Erie Canal and its approaches: from the Troy Lock, just south of the Erie Canal Junction, the Erie Canal itself, and the Black Rock Lock on the Niagara River. It provides the lifts for each lock, the distance to the next lock, and the estimated time enroute between locks.
The Port Mayaca Lock and Dam was built in 1977 for navigation purposes, to permit the raising of water levels in Lake Okeechobee, and to moderate the effects of higher lake stages along the St. Lucie Canal.
The Lockington Locks are a group of canal locks on the former Miami and Erie Canal in Lockington, Ohio, United States. Built beginning in 1833, the locks opened for regular use in 1845....
The extensive stair step canal lock walls, among the best preserved in Ohio, were part of the Miami and Erie Canal system, which opened for navigation in 1845 and connected Cincinnati and the Ohio River to Toledo and Lake Erie.
As can be seen in the Canal Data pages, there have been attempts to improve some of the drainage canals for navigation, such as the Miami Canal that ran between lake Harbor on Lake Okeechobee and the Atlantic near Miami. Locks were built and it was used, but not to any great extent. See the Canal Index Pages below for a list of these.
The Miami-Erie Canal utilized 105 locks to raise and lower the canal boats along the 250-mile waterway. Loramie Summit, 21 miles in length, was the high point of the canal - 521 feet above the Ohio River and 395 feet above Lake Erie.
The SFWMD’s Water Management Infrastructure Brochure features a detailed map of the regional water management system in Central and Southern Florida, along with key information about navigational locks, including hours of operation. The brochure also provides step-by-step instructions on how to navigate a lock.
