In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers dumped 27,000 tons of rock to dam the Niagara River and stop the American Falls. They were assessing a growing pile of boulders at the bottom out of concern the ...
The American Falls at Niagara Falls, N.Y., has been dried up to little more than a trickle, giving visitors an unusual chance to see the rocks normally hidden from view by the water, June 1969. (AP ...
More than a century of engineering has radically re-shaped the natural wonder—but when the U.S. had the chance to bend the American Falls to its will, it folded. Here’s why. Niagara Falls in the ...