NIAGARA FALLS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 142, 18 June 1931, Page 4

NIAGARA FALLS

THE EROSION SCARE

REASSURING REPORT.

An international board oC engineers appointed in 1926 by Canada and tho United States to study the past, present, and future of Niagara Falls has presented its final report with a message of reassurance) to those who have predicted tho extinction of Niagara as a great spectacle at a comparatively early date. The board finds quite unwarranted the statement that tho most famous cataract of tho Western world is "committing suicide" by degenerating into a more cascade. As a matter of fact tbese engineers find that the cliff: now is cutting back at' a decreasing rate, that the rate will continue to decrease, that in a century or two there will bo little apparent difference in the Falls, and that inevitable recession will not endanger tho Tails in less than 2000 years. Certain remedial steps are recommended for the even diffusion of water over the shallow rims o.E the groat Horseshoe. In recent years a great deal of water has been diverted for power purposes, but if is claimed that by diverting to the flanks part of the deep stream which pours over the centre of the cataract the beauty of an even and far-flung torrent may be maintained for many centuries.