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Is it possible to build a canal that connects the San River to the Dniester or the Bug River to the Dniester? What would the costs and environmental effects be?
The costs would be huge. The terrain starts to be hilly and canal unfriendly along the way, so it would require a lot of investments. Moreover the RIVERS that would be connected would require LOTS of work, to make any reasonably sized barges pass reliably. That would most likely eclipse the expense on canal in the first place.Is it possible to build a canal that connects the San River to the Dniester or the Bug River to the Dniester? What would the costs and environmental effects be?
The scenario I was thinking of was no WW2, and Poland, Romania, and maybe a few other countries funding the project jointly so that there was access from the Baltic to the Black Sea without going through Soviet territory. I guess that's not realistic?The costs would be huge. The terrain starts to be hilly and canal unfriendly along the way, so it would require a lot of investments. Moreover the RIVERS that would be connected would require LOTS of work, to make any reasonably sized barges pass reliably. That would most likely eclipse the expense on canal in the first place.
I can imagine that done actually, just not after 1900. A stronger Habsburgs snatching more Ukraine in partition of Poland might need one, or alternatively a more westernward Russian Empire. ... Or we can go Poland Stronk and have surviving First Rzeczpospolita do it in XIX century. With PODs past XIX century, the reasonable thing to do is to build a double rail line instead.
Not entirely, just not optimal solution to the problem. However it is entirely within a realm of technical possibility. Some canals connecting Moselle are even higher and more precarious. Politicians could agree for it as display ofThe scenario I was thinking of was no WW2, and Poland, Romania, and maybe a few other countries funding the project jointly so that there was access from the Baltic to the Black Sea without going through Soviet territory. I guess that's not realistic?
My reasoning for the purpose of the canal is a no WW2 timeline, where Poland wants an alternative to the Dniepr-Bug Canal because the Dniepr is in Soviet territory.Well, there's the
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper–Bug_Canal
Dniepr - Bug Canal that exists. Of course, it goes through Belarus....
I've got to say, looking at Google Maps, that the Bug as it gets near Lviv looks pretty darn tiny.
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Going all out crazy...
Take the Poltva tributary of the Bug all the way into Lviv. Then build a canal from Mosty on the Dniester to Lviv, some 60km
Or, even crazier.
Take the Holohirka River (which enters the Poltva just south of Busk, just before the latter joins the Bug)
Follow that up to Velyka Vil'shanytsya, and from there cut a canal 18km WSW to Univ, where you can join the Hnyla Lypa, which is a tributary of the Dniester. This route would follow the approximate route of roads H02 west, and then T1806 south.
I think you should wash your mouth with soap. Or your mind...I also want someone to find/rename a tributary of the Dniester named 'Khoi' so we could have a Khoi-San canal.![]()
Is that a swear word? I googled "Khoi-San and the result I got was some ethnic group in Africa.I think you should wash your mouth with soap. Or your mind...
Ah. Well, it was the people in southern Africa (earliest surviving split in the human family try), that I was thinking of.Is that a swear word? I googled "Khoi-San and the result I got was some ethnic group in Africa.
And I wasn't trying to be anal about it, just to point out that such name would get many laughs among locals.Ah. Well, it was the people in southern Africa (earliest surviving split in the human family try), that I was thinking of.
Once the possible connexion to Polish swearwords was mentioned, I think I vaguely recall hearing of that word before, but I was not trying to be obscene, just wildly off-topic.