Country Poland County Augustów Operation Manual Phone +48 22 587 02 11 | State Podlaskie Maintained by RZGW First built 1825 - 1826 Waterway Augustów Canal | |
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Address Kanał Augustowski, 29 Listopada, 16-300 Augustów, Poland | ||
August w lock
Augustów Lock - the fifth lock on the Augustów Canal (from the Biebrza River). It is located in Augustów, Poland near National Road No 8 and built between 1825-1826 by cf Eng. Konstanty Jodko It was blown up in 1944 by an army of the Third Reich and rebuilt in its present form by "HYDROTREST" in the years 1947-1948 Under a new projectit will use of metal gates with channels of circulation and the gate mechanisms for opening the gates i driven by cranks. The result of these upgrades is an extension of time of about 7 minutes.
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