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From: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle
Subject: Re: Barge problem
Message-ID: <944@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Nov-85 17:27:26 EST
Article-I.D.: lsuc.944
Posted: Fri Nov 29 17:27:26 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 29-Nov-85 20:14:57 EST
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Reply-To: msb@lsuc.UUCP (Mark Brader)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: Seaway is repaired

lrb@hpcnof.UUCP writes:
> Suppose a barge carrying a load of scrap iron is floating in one of the locks
> of the St. Lawrence Seaway, patiently waiting for the Seaway to re-open.  
> (BTW, I heard last month on the news that it is to be closed for *months* 
> due to the wall of one lock collapsing, causing losses >$10M to certain 
> segments of the Canadian & U.S. economies).

The Seaway was closed for something like 3 or 4 weeks only.  The lock
is repaired and the traffic backlog should be cleared by now.  At the
time of the collapse, Seaway officials refused to speculate on how long
it would be closed, so any reporters who said "months" (or "*months*")
were simply guessing.

Mark Brader, Toronto, Canada
(about 100 km from where it happened)