THE WONDERS OF NIAGARA FALL

THE MYSTERY OF NIAGARA FALL

Ever since the American and Canadian sides of Niagara Falls have been separated by Goat Island, bridal veil Falls has been the smallest of them all. The three waterfalls - the Horseshoe Falls, American Falls, and bridal veil Falls - make up what we know as The Magnificent Niagara Falls. Although the American Falls flow predominantly on the American side of Niagara Crossing, they are separated from the Horseshoe Falls and bridal veil Falls by Goat Island. Canada and America have a cool natural border; many people didn't believe it was possible to stop such amounts of water,

from flowing but we did it it took a 600 foot Dam across the enormous Niagara river

This river diverted sixty thousand gallons of water every second to reach the Canadian Falls means they had to divert more than a million gallons every day. The water then flowed over the biggest horseshoe Falls, yup the ones that are completely on the Canadian side of the Border. Over twenty seven thousand tons of rock was used to construct that Dam, and more than a thousand trucks carried that rock back in the hot summer of 1969,research was done but locals were still worried about control of these amounts of water. They were afraid tourists wouldn't come anymore if teams didn't manage to make the American Falls start flowing.

There were different coins people had thrown in the water over decades Maybe to make a wish or for some other purpose “wow a

Niagara Falls piggy bank” well they removed most of those coins I wonder who got them but in the past couple of decades more and more tourists have been coming here. Imagine all the things they could find now more coins of course but also lost cameras, drones, cell phones and other things careless visitors could accidentally drop in the waterfalls.

The idea of removing all the water and turning Niagara Falls into a

desert proved to be possible but it may need to be done again. Waterfall flow again the way it used to, but tourists kept coming even that summer and they got a unique chance to see something no one had ever seen

before or after during that period there was even a temporary walkway built only 20 feet away from the edge of the now dry Falls

It helped workers to clean the bottom of what used to be a river so

tourists could go there and explore the wild landscape of the falls that was

usually under the water hostile and not accessible to visitors at all as they

were exploring the dried bottom of the falls.

Researchers stumbled upon millions in 2020. The media reported that two pedestrian bridges in Niagara falls needed to be either replaced or repaired, no wonder since they're almost 120 years old. These bridges are located above the rapids, experts discuss whether they should divert the water once again or not.

People talk about Niagara Falls a lot and some believe they're among the

tallest waterfalls in the world but the truth is they're not; they're famous,

precious and breathtaking but when it comes to hype there are nearly 500 other waterfalls across the globe that are taller than Niagara. For instance let's take Angel Falls in Venezuela for example, they are more than three thousand feet tall. What makes Niagara Falls so special among other waterfalls is the amount of water that flows over them, very high waterfalls don't usually have great amounts of water. The combination of all

those huge amounts of water and the height is what makes Niagara Fall so

breathtaking also they might be some of the fastest moving waterfalls on our planet.

The Niagara River appeared after the last ice age together with a whole

Great Lakes Basin. The Niagara River is part of it eighteen thousand years ago and this awesome waterfall didn't exist. The ice sheets covered the area of Southern Ontario and they were one to two miles thick as the

ice sheets were moving Southward; they created the Basin of the Great Lakes, then they melted releasing enormous amounts of water into the basins.

Generally the water we drink is fossil water only one percent of it renews

throughout the year with the remaining 99 percent coming from Ice Sheets .The Niagara Peninsula hasn't been beneath the eyes for nearly 12 500 years as the ice melted the resulting Water started to flow down through what later turned into Niagara River Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. It took a lot of time but the water eventually eroded cliffs and formed these spectacular Falls.

Now you might have noticed that the Niagara River is amazingly green, this

a specific color tells us how powerful the water is when it comes to erosion. Every minute Niagara Falls spews over 60 tons of dissolved minerals all together with dissolved salt and finely ground rock makes the color so magnificent.

People who live in the United States and Canada or more precisely over millions of people who have access to the area. people use the Waters of Niagara River for different purposes for example fishing, getting drinking water, doing recreational activities including swimming boating and bird watching ,producing hydroelectric power and so

much more.

Now the first hydroelectric Generating Station in the world was

built at the end of the 19th century and it was right next to the falls pretty soon it started paying off because people were getting electricity from it

but this electricity could travel only 300 feet so something needed to be

improved. There Nikola Tesla was the one who took up the challenge and made the necessary changes he discovered that electricity could travel long distances if an alternating current was used. Today several Niagara Falls power plants provide over 2 million kilowatts of power.

Okay I'll tell you another interesting thing, 1969 wasn't the only time when

Niagara Falls stopped back in 1848.The water didn't flow over the falls for up to 40 hours. Now the Falls were already very popular among tourists and a useful source of energy for local people so no wonder they freaked out. Nature was to blame, this time ice blocked the source of the Niagara River, an American farmer was the first one to notice, it was March 29th and he went for a walk right before midnight soon he realized he

couldn't hear the powerful Roar of the falls and he quickly went to the edge of the river and stood there in shock since there was hardly any water.

Factories and Mills had to shut down because they depended on that water.

Turtles were just wandering around and fish didn't survive. Some people took a walk on the River bottom taking little things they could find there as souvenirs but two days later on March 31st people heard a distant rumbling coming from up, river it was getting nearer and louder until a wall of water appeared in front of their eyes and one of the World's greatest attractions that millions of tourists visit every year was back in business again, magnificent and in the end Invincible as it should be.