Dalsland Canal
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Dalsland Canal at Håverud
Kyrkogatan 14, 662 31 Åmål [email protected] ( Canal Museum in Håverud )
The Dalsland Canal is an artificial waterway in Sweden, which connects the lake Vänern with a number of lakes in the historic province of Dalsland and western Värmland.
The canal was built in 1864-1868 under the leadership of the Swedish engineer Nils Ericson and passes as it travels among others, the lakes Råvarpen, Laxsjön, Lelång, Foxen and Töck until it ends Easts in the lake. About the Foxen you get to the Stora Le, the partially located in Norway. Until the construction of the railway in the 1870s, iron ore and lumber were transported between Stora Le and Köpmannnsbro. The entire system is about 254 km long, but only 12 km were newly dug or blasted out of the rock. Boats that pass through the channel, thereby pass through twelve locks and the place Håverud a distinctive trough bridge, bridges the rapids. The total difference in height of the channel is 66 meters. The distance to today Norwegian Halden canal is only 1.5 kilometers for Otteid. From 1827 to 1956 there was a raft route. A navigable route there are not for financial reasons until today. About the Vänern you reach the Göta and Trollhätte channel.