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You often see them at the side of locks so if the water level gets too high they bypass the lock doors and run down to the next level. It is this movement of water that actually lifts or lowers a ship in a lock. The water for the canal must be provided from an external source, like streams or reservoirs. Where the new waterway must change elevation engineering works like locks, lifts or elevators are constructed to raise and lower vessels. Water levels can be controlled in canals, sending excess water into non-risk areas further downstream, with each lock forming a single linear reservoir.
Then, once the river overflowed, the excess water was contained by the canal. Originally canal lock gates were built as vertically opening structures, not dissimilar to a portcullis on a castle.
Because the pressure of the water was up against a single flat surface, it would often find weaknesses in the door and leak through. It was also very difficult to raise such a heavy gate. The water level could differ by 4 feet 1.
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