DOT agrees to town's request, will elevate 2 river bridges
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Once he was in a group that included a canoe, and they had to wait for the tide to go down to pass under them.
"They were sort of squeaking through," he said of the canoes.
After the bridges are replaced, that won't be problem anymore.
The N.C. Department of Transportation will raise the bridges over the Brunswick River to accommodate recreational boating traffic as part of the causeway project, which will add a lane each way to U.S. 17/74/76.
The DOT will begin purchasing right of way for the $34.1 million project this summer, and it will be advertised to contractors in the summer of 2013.
The DOT's latest plans call for the bridges to be 8 feet above the water line at high tide. The existing bridges are only about 2 feet above the high tide line.
Source: StarNewsOnline.com
Canoe race tests endurance
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By Derek Miller
For the Salisbury Post
Can you paddle 70 miles in one day? Well, you’d better, if you want to complete the General Clinton Canoe Regatta.
The regatta is the longest single-day flat water canoe race in the world. In fact, the race will be celebrating its 50th year next month, on Memorial Day weekend.
Canoes of all kinds compete, from 90-pound recreational canoes to 20-pound lightweight graphite canoes (within their respective classes). The start of this world championship 70-mile flat water endurance race is at the source of the Susquehanna River on Otsego Lake, Cooperstown, NY; it finishes at General Clinton Park in Bainbridge, NY.
The “General Clinton,” as most veteran canoeists refer to it, attracts top marathon paddlers from North America and Europe. It has featured world-class athletes such as Canadian Serge Corbin, a 28-time General Clinton winner, and Olympic Gold Medalist Greg Barton. It’s not unusual to see around 3,000 amateur, professional, and Olympic hopeful canoeists participate over the course of the weekend.
Source: Salisbury Post
Canoe race a go
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ST. ANDREW'S — Although the Raisin River is slowing to a comparative trickle for mid-April, there are no plans to beach the annual canoe race on April 22.
Race co-ordinator Josianne Sabourin said: "We will race, regardless of water level."
Two years ago, the Raisin River Conservation Authority cancelled the popular race at the 11th hour.
"We had a lot of complaints that we cancelled," Sabourin said.
It was deemed the 2010 trek from St. Andrew's to Williamstown would have been too challenging, requiring several portages and concerns with the lack of water over the Martintown dam.
Barring a good rainfall at least two days before the race, Sabourin said racers will have to take their time going down the river, which will have many more exposed rocks and stumps.
Source: Standard Freeholder
