The American Niagara Falls was once stopped! Due to several years of rocks falling in, between the year 1931 and 1954, the American Falls faced erosion, which if not prevented would have resulted in the permanent extinction of the American Falls. In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers de-watered the falls, to allow a series of carefully-planned tests to be conducted.
The engineers were surprised that their work uncovered an unintentional discovery: the body of a dead woman wearing a gold band, with the tragic inscription ‘forget me not’ on the inside.
Their planned tests also found that 385,000 tons of Talus had accumulated at the base of American Falls. Those stones had resulted in reduction of waterfall from 100 feet to 45 feet, while the depth of the Talus ranged from 25 feet to 50 feet. As per the consensus taken from the public, there was to be no noticeable change in the appearance of American falls. In short? Nothing was done, and the erosion continues. But we have some amazing photographs of the de-watered Niagara Falls.
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