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HOW was the flow of the Chicago river reversed?

Meet me in St. Louis! But seriously, what was the engineering involved in reversing the flow?

[The captain of the ship I sailed on from Holland, across the Atlantic into the St. Lawrence river, seaway, and Great Lakes did - with the connivance of the Chief Engineer - convince the youngest apprentice that the Niagara falls were switched off at night. The old half-truths are the best.]

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  • 1 decade ago
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    by dredging the river

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