A dam was built across the Wabash River at Pitts to create a slack water area to allow the boats to cross the river without an aqueduct.
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Due to its location at the head of the slack waters of the Monongahela, Greensboro's influence as a commercial and manufacturing center expanded far beyond its small boundaries.
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He said that, as a result of the ebb and flow of the tide of judicial opinion, the court was left in the slack water of first principles.
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It was the tiny smolt, the young salmon, who had trouble surviving the journey downstream through the dams'turbines and the warm slack water that pooled behind the dams.
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The canal originally crossed the creek in a slack water pool that was created by a dam, which can be seen when the water is low, further down the creek.
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Spring tides result in high waters that are higher than average, low waters that are lower than average,'slack water'time that is shorter than average, and stronger tidal currents than average.
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The captains wanted to get their ships to their berths during slack water, an eight-minute window of time when the tide is not coming in or going out, Perrin said.
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Only a few miles below Elk River Dam is the beginning of slack water ( Tims Ford Lake ) caused by the Tims Ford Dam of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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By the 1850s, the slack water system of locks and dams had been developed by the Monongahela Navigation Company ( later acquired by the Morgantown became a more localized port.
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He concluded that he liked the " ambient, new-agey " background music, and said " while'Slack Water'was a good episode, it also wasn't the best that this show can do ".
