Dam Bridge: (Historic Bridges)
Looking upstream (South) at Court Street Bridge from Broad Street Bridge.
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| Street View, Jun 2025 |
View looking upstream at Court Street Dam and Bridge from Court Street Bridge. The I-490 Frederick Douglass-Susan B. Anthony Memorial Bridge is in the background.
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| Street View, Jun 2017 |
I wonder if the public can use this bridge over the dam.
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| HistoricBridges |
Because the Genesee River intersects with the Barge Canal upstream from here, the dam controls the level of the canal. Thus the "canalErie" label on these notes.
3 of the 4 images posted by Jeff Miller with the comment:
I’m taking a walk around Rochester this afternoon, April 12, 2026.The Court Street Dam is keeping Rochester’s Barge Canal Inner Harbor from flooding over the embankments today; lots of water flow on the Genesee!
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| a, a screenshot from a video |
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| c, cropped |
Because the dam is just a little downstream of the I-490 bridge, all of the views I have seen of that bridge have about the same river level. Instead of the river level changing, the flow rate in the river changes.
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| HighSteel via Dennis DeBruler |
The dam was built with a bunch of sluice gates.
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| Digitally Zoomed, 2x |
By 1927, the sluice gates were replaced with sector gates.
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| Digitally Zoomed |
Actually, the operation of these gates should be like bear trap gates in that values can be used instead of pumps. To raise a gate, valves on the upstream side of the chamber are opened. To lower the gate, valves on the downstream side of the chamber are opened.
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| Digitally Zoomed, 2x |
In all of the views and photos I have looked at of the dam, they lowered the sector gates before they let the water flow over the fixed weir on the east side. So this photo of the sector gates being dry while the weirs are spilling water caught my eye. Looking closer, they are not using the sector gates because they are doing construction in the downstream river bed.
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| Ethan Corona, Dec 2019 |
I wish I could read the text.
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| Ethan Corona, Dec 2019 |
And this is what all of that spilled water is doing downstream at the former aqueduct.
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| Facebook Reel |
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