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Hydraulic Dredge No. 1 - NYS Canal Corp. |
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Hydraulic Dredge No. 1 also known as HD-1 is equipped with a spinning rotary cutter head on the end of a long pipe lowered into the water. A giant pump in the dredge sucks up the mud and powers it out the back into a floating pipeline several hundred yards long. The pipeline runs up the bank into a pond where the water is allowed to run back into the canal. Earth movers can then load the dirt up on trucks and carry it away.
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Another look at the floating pipeline attached to the back end of Hydraulic Dredge No. 1 (HD1) . The pipeline is comprised of sections of steel pipe on floats, connected together with rubber sections. This makes the entire pipeline somewhat flexible.
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