Bond of Union, Gerard Koeppel, 2009 Jesse Hawley first proposed a canal across central New York state linking Lake Erie with the Hudson River in an essay published in the newsweekly “Commonwealth” in 1807. He used the alias “Hercules” to maintain anonymity for such an outrageous idea. After much politicking, construction was begun on July [...]
My father was a civil engineer. He received a degree in Forestry and Civil Engineering at the University of Washington in 1950 and started an illustrious, international career building transcontinental railroads (southern Australia) Atomic energy plants (Hanford, WA) Cement production plants (California), mining facilities in Peru, tunnels in the New Guinea jungle for a copper [...]
It is time for a very large scale WPA style civil engineering project to get the heartland and the rest of us back on our feet. Let’s turn Indiana into our sixth great lake and connect this lake to the rapidly diminishing Oglala aquifer that lies beneath the Great Plains states. What to do with [...]