{"id":18657,"date":"2017-01-20T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=18657"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T15:05:03","slug":"1969-niagara-falls-runs-dry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/20\/1969-niagara-falls-runs-dry\/","title":{"rendered":"1969: Niagara Falls runs dry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2017\/01\/14\/niagara-falls-runs-dry\/\">Mashable.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For several months in 1969, the torrent of water rushing over American Falls, one of three waterfalls that makes up Niagara Falls, was reduced to little more than a trickle.<br \/>\nAmerican Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile, or talus, at its base, the result of a series of natural rockslides over the years. In the late 1960s, concerns were growing that further rockslides could erode the falls completely.<br \/>\nTo study the geological composition of the falls and forestall their potential destruction, a joint American-Canadian commission decided to dewater them for five months.<br \/>\nOver three days in June 1969, more than 1,200 trucks dumped nearly 28,000 tons of rocky fill into a cofferdam upstream of the falls, diverting the flow of the Niagara River away from American Falls and toward the much larger Horseshoe Falls.<br \/>\nWith the falls dry for the first time in millennia, the US Army Corps of Engineers began their investigation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mashable.com: For several months in 1969, the torrent of water rushing over American Falls, one of three waterfalls that makes up Niagara Falls, was reduced to little more than a trickle. American Falls is recognizable for the immense rock pile, or talus, at its base, the result of a series of natural rockslides over&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6111,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[650,4680,11683,9846,142,11684,11681,11686,11534,11682,11685],"class_list":["post-18657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-american-falls","tag-commission","tag-dewater","tag-dry","tag-horseshoe-falls","tag-june-1969","tag-mashable","tag-mashable-com","tag-rock","tag-rockslides","tag-us-army-corps-of-engineers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18658,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18657\/revisions\/18658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}