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Tuesday, August 16, 2011


Impressive and cool...!

8 comments:

BionicDwarf said...

if you want to see another feat of waterway engineering, check out the Falkirk wheel in Scotland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkirk_Wheel

Its well impressive how it raises/lowers boat the 25 or so metres between the 2 waterways.

CyberKitten said...

Gotta *love* civil engineering. It was one of my possible career choices back in the day.

Stephen said...

Whoa! I've never seen anything like this before. Do you know the location? I wonder how deep the overhead passage is.

CyberKitten said...

I'm afraid that I have no idea where it is. I suspect its either the Low Countries or possibly Germany.

The ship/barge crossing the bridge looks like a pretty hefty bulk carrier so the bridge part would be quite substantial. I'll see what I can find on a Google search....

CyberKitten said...

Found it!

The Magdeburg Water Bridge is a navigable aqueduct in Germany, opened in October 2003. It connects the Elbe-Havel Canal to the Mittellandkanal, crossing over the Elbe River. It is notable for being the longest navigable aqueduct in the world, with a total length of 918 metres (3,012 ft)

CyberKitten said...

..and to answer your other question:

Width 34 m
Water depth 4.25 m

VV said...

That is so cool and weird at the same time to see two water highways cross each other in different directions like a roadway would.

CyberKitten said...

I did have to do a double-take because it looked so unusual - it's certainly not something you would expect to see every day. Brilliant idea though!