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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9793688" data-attributes="member: 52734">An idea:The Waveswith Aquaduct and Canal: Some time ago, an enterprising individual realized there was great profit in erecting an aquaduct that ran almost directly from the Water Rift in Ellindam Lake straight down into Waveswith, bypassing the fouled waters of the Ell.  The individual formed a construction company using their vast family funds, with buy-in from others who sought to benefit from the bypass.  While the project was ultimately successful, its architect went bankrupt along with the company it founded.  The original portion of the construction, which brought fresh water directly to Waveswith's core, was completed.  The add-on, to create a keyed canal system to float boats up from the bay to the lake, was incomplete.  Time and persistence has seen a less grand canal system emerge, allowing canal traffic to permeate Waveswith.  A modest system, large enough to accomodate specially designed rafts, does exist to raise goods, but not boats from inner core of Waveswith up to the lake.  It requires ships to unload at the bay, move the goods (by canal, wagon or foot) to the keyed Canal, and then placed on rafts where channels then "step up" the goods to the lake level.  Though it is only marginally faster than travelling upriver along the Ell, it is considered much safer and easier than navigating against the current and flotsam often found in the Ell - in the best of weather.</blockquote>

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