Dry Niagara Falls : 1969 without Water Photos

Niagara Falls became nothing but an infertile riverbed (without water) when, in June 1969, the flow of the Niagara River was diverted away by a team from the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers from the American side of the falls through building of a transitory rock and earth dam for some months as per the Daily Mail report. An astonishing set of photos of the dominant Niagara Falls, "dewatered" has been discovered recently by Russ Glasson of Connecticut (after Four decades, in 2010).

Photo courtesy: wikipedia

Imagine the picture of North America’s thunderous Niagara Falls goes soundless without a single drop of water. An entirely dry Niagara Falls is being showed with some giant  cranes and other construction materials on its marshy bed by the set of photographs published by the newspaper.

Niagara Falls is very broad even though not very high. Both for its beauty and as a precious source of hydroelectric power, Niagara Falls is renowned. When the Niagara Falls attraction both day and night, the peak number of visitors occurs in the summer. A dam consisting almost 28,000 tons of rock was constructed by engineers in 1969 to thrive in their aim of stopping the water for the first time in about 12,000 years. In order to slow the natural erosion of the American Falls, mechanically the engineering operation also repaired several geological faults after the riverbed was cleared.

Russ Glasson claimed, “My in-laws took these pictures during the six months through June to November that the Army was working to improve the health of the American Falls”. These barren photos disclose North America's iconic waterfall to be nearly as dry as a desert. The pics also unveil the engineers at work and the rockslide debris blocking the foot of the fall' course. You can view all the photos of Dry Niagara Falls at dailymail.co.uk.

Niagara Falls, 1969. The day they shut off Niagra falls video from youtube: