Canal Barges

This photo was taken in late spring 2009.  Onrust had been splashed just a day or two before, as recorded in post 1 here and then 2 here.   But look over to the right side of the photo, the two bollards on squarish platforms in the water.

These.  Well, at summer pool . . . when the water level of the canal is up to allow navigation, they look like so, but

when winter comes and the state hydrologist directs draw-down of the pool, the bollards are on platforms that

are actually concrete barges, ones that do NOT rise and fall with changing pool levels.  The snowy photos I took last weekend.

Click here and here for some of the history of these century old barges.

Note the reference numbers below and

below.

Here’s how they look on google satellite view.   For more on the builder behind these, click here . . . G. A. Tomlinson.

All photos by Will Van Dorp.