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| Street View, Jun 2025 [Note in the right background that NY-28 still has a truss bridge.] |
This dam diverted water into a 10-mile feeder canal to the Black River Canal (BRC). The BRC, in turn, was a feeder canal for the Enlarged Erie Canal. Boonville was the summit of the BRC, thus this feeder canal joined the BRC in Boonville. That allowed 2/3 of the water to go south to the Erie Canal and 1/3 to go north to facilitate navigation on the BRC to Lyons Falls then on the Black River to Carthage.
The Black River must have a healthy, year-round flow because this is about the lightest flow I saw over the dam.
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| Josh Geist, Jun 2021 |
This feeder canal was navigable.
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| BlackRiverCanalMuseum |
The canal goes off to the west including a large embankment that creates Alder Pond.
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| Satellite |
This shows how the feeder canal stayed above the elevation of Boonville while the Black River went lower in its valley.
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| 904 Booneville and 1897 Rmsen Quads @ 62,500 |
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