Freigter enters Livingston Channel

The Livingston Channel was created back in the 1950s as part of the big St. Lawrence Seaway Project, to connect our GREAT LAKES to each other, and eventually to the Atlantic Ocean.

The ends of this channel were closed off while TONS AND TONS of rock were quarried out of it, so that all freighters have about 27 to 30 feet of depth, below their waterlines.

When enough rock was removed, the ends were opened up to let the ships go through.

The photo "location", although consistent with panaramio policy of depicting the location where the photo was TAKEN FROM, looks a little "weird" in the "Location" frame.

This is over a "brine" type of salt mining operation just east of Amherstburg, Ont.

Hot water is pumped far below ground, which comes to the surface with the "salt" dissolved in it.

Large Settling and Evaporation ponds allow the water to run off, and evaporate out of the salt brine. When this process is complete, the dried salt is dug up and processed for shipment and use.

The only problem is what happens in the areas below ground after the salt is "dissolved" out of it??? What happens??? Usually nothing...

Until the ground opens up in a gigantic sinkhole, like that which occurred on the northern part of nearby Grosse Ile.....

All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't fill that hole up again... well almost all of them... but it still isn't "useable Property" for anything.