March 31, 1967, Twin City News-Record
This is a bit premature, but we can dream, can't we? March brings the new season, at least by the calendar, and these harbingers of Spring are most assuredly a desired quantity, after the months of brutal snow and cold are left behind.
Younger readers of this blog might not know that the U.S. Coast Guard used to populate the facility and utility yard across the street from 126 Water Street. They used to store a lot of the buoys there and even a small boat. In the Spring, they would put these buoys out in the Government Canal and LLBDM to aid navigation and then retrieve the buoys when the Navigation Season ended in the fall. Occasionally, a large barge with a "steamshovel" on one end would dig out the navigation channel in LLBDM from the Locks to the "deep" water further from the southern shore of the lake. The barge belonged to or was chartered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Since the Federal Government no longer has responsibility for maintaining navigation in the Canal and Lake, the Corps of Engineers and (I presume) the U.S. Coast Guard no longer provide these services.
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