The New York State Canal Corporation will be making routine inspections of water management gates along the Erie Canal in Monroe County beginning the week of October 18 in Brockport and moving east. These inspections, which occur every ten years and are completed by a Canal Corporation contractor, are necessary to ensure the water management gates and their surrounding embankments are functioning as designed. If defects are discovered during the inspections, repairs will be appropriately scheduled.
The contractor has completed surveying and will begin assessing material obtained through soil borings at the following locations:
•Brockport Waste Weir Dam (Brockport)
•Spencerport Waste Weir Dam (Spencerport)
•Cartersville Spillway (Town of Brighton)
•Bushnell’s Basin (Pittsford)
•Fairport Spillway (Perinton/Fairport)
This routine work is not associated with the Canal Corporation’s Earthen Embankment Integrity Program; however, it may require minimal amounts of vegetation to be removed to aid in the inspection process.
While the work is performed, residents may notice crew members, wearing hard hats and high-visibility vests, as well as their drilling equipment called “rigs” in the vicinity of the locations noted above. The crew will use drills to take samples of soil and rock as part of this routine ten-year asset inspection program.
Throughout these inspections, the Canal Corporation expects minimal, if any, disruption to users of the nearby Erie Canalway Trail.
It is anticipated that this inspection process will be completed by November 19, 2021.
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