Talk:Hiram M. Chittenden Locks

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During November, 2004 the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks were emptied for maintanence. While one of the two locks was emptied the other remained open for boat traffic. The large locks shown below has three gates. One at each end and one in the center dividing the locks into two halves. The pictures below from left to right show the west half taken from the center gate, the east half taken from the center gate and the center gate taken from the south side.

Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.
Hiram M. Chittenden Locks emptied for maintanence.

Moved from Canal Lock to here aqs it didnt fit in to the Canal lock article. I cant imediately see where it fits in this artcile either, but I dont like compleately deleteing info! Iain 10:06, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I would strongly recommend moving these images to Commons and placing them in Commons:Category:Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Ditto for the images in the gallery on this page, only two of which are on Commons. - Jmabel | Talk 06:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] PD documents

There are a lot of public domain federal government documents about the locks. As far as I can tell, most of them are only on paper, not online. I'll try over the next month or so to upload some of this content; some of it (both words and text) can probably go directly into the article. - Jmabel | Talk 06:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Assessment

This is no longer a stub. To get to B class, the article needs some work on the WP:LEAD. As in summarize the whole article, with expanded details further down, bullets in the lead are rare. Also needs a global perspective, not everyone knows where Seattle is, try adding state and country. Then try to do something to reduce the amount of white space that is created by having so many pictures compared to text. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)