Winnipeg, built on an ancient flood plain, was saved only by a diversion canal built after a 1950 flood.
Attempts to create a diversion around the silt blockages led to disaster, when winter flooding in 1905 tumbled the diversion canal.
Residing in diversion canals is a large source of mortality for juvenile saugers.
Dams and diversion canals prevent spawning in upstream habitats.
Farkhad Dam: dam, machine room, the diversion canal (2 km.
Acquiring the rights to the eastern rapids above the falls as well, the Porter brothers envisioned building a diversion canal in order to produce hydraulic power.
He also worked to procure funding for roads in his district and to finance the diversion canal of the Comite River.
The dam and a diversion canal delivered water to the city of Gold Hill even after electricity production ended in the 1970s.
Lake Moultrie is, in turn, fed from Lake Marion by a diversion canal built around the same time period.
It partly consists of a pair of primary diversion canals in the Karun river, one of which is still in use today.