The Eisenhower Lock is one of the seven canal locks on the St Lawrence River leg of the St Lawrence Seaway . This lock provides a 38 foot lift for ships heading upstream. It is one of two locks located near Massena, New York .
5-558: The lock was constructed to bypass the portion of the St Lawrence River known as the Long Sault . The US Army Corps of Engineers planned and supervised the construction. Actual construction was performed by Peter Kiewit Sons Co. , Morrison-Knudsen Co., Perini Corp., Utah Construction Co., and Walsh Construction Co. The lock was originally named the "Robinson Bay Lock" and was renamed after President Dwight Eisenhower after his term
10-504: The river began to exceed the capacity of the area's canal locks. The construction required the flooding of a large swath of land near the rapids to facilitate a hydroelectric dam and to make the rapids area more navigable. The flooded region includes Ontario's Lost Villages . The Long Sault Parkway takes its name from the rapids. 45°00′32″N 74°52′48″W / 45.009°N 74.880°W / 45.009; -74.880 This Eastern Ontario geographical article
15-580: Was a rapid in the St. Lawrence River upstream and west of Cornwall, Ontario . Sault is the archaic spelling of the French word saut , meaning rapids. The Long Sault created a navigation barrier along the river for much of its history, motivating the construction of the Moses-Saunders Power Dam , part of the St. Lawrence Seaway , in the 1950s as the size of ships and the volume of shipping traffic along
20-642: Was a second dedication ceremony at the Eisenhower Lock . Key attendees were Queen Elizabeth II , Vice President Richard Nixon and New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller . In 1972 a tanker, the MV Venus , exploded while transiting the lock. On June 18, 2015, the cruise ship Saint Laurent collided with the lock, causing it to be drained, and closed for almost two days. 44°58′46″N 74°50′58″W / 44.97937°N 74.84956°W / 44.97937; -74.84956 Long Sault Long Sault
25-511: Was over. The lock, and the nearby Bertrand H. Snell Lock are part of the Wiley-Dondero Canal . Construction was complicated by the need to not interrupt the waterflow to nearby hydro-electric installations. The St. Lawrence Seaway was dedicated on 26 June 1959 at a ceremony in Montreal. Key speakers were President Dwight Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II . The following day there
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