{"id":19114,"date":"2017-03-03T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/?p=19114"},"modified":"2017-02-27T10:07:43","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T15:07:43","slug":"engineers-once-shut-down-niagara-falls-water-flow-for-three-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/03\/engineers-once-shut-down-niagara-falls-water-flow-for-three-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineers once shut down Niagara Falls&#8217; water flow for three days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Mashable (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/article\/news\/2017\/02\/23\/engineers-once-shut-down-niagara-falls-water-flow-for-three-day\/21717947\/\">AOL<\/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.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>American 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.<\/p>\n<p>To study the geological composition of the falls and forestall their potential destruction, a joint American-Canadian commission decided to dewater them for five months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--Ads1--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Mashable (via AOL): 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.<\/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_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":[4854,1069,650,12004,12006,11683,11681,41,11534,11682,11420,12005,12007],"class_list":["post-19114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-niagara-falls-history","tag-1960s","tag-1069","tag-american-falls","tag-aol","tag-base","tag-dewater","tag-mashable","tag-niagara-falls","tag-rock","tag-rockslides","tag-shut-down","tag-talus","tag-water-flow"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114","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=19114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19115,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19114\/revisions\/19115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}