"During the planning phase for the project, drawbridges, ferries, and tunnels were considered as likely solutions to allowing the road to fully cross the lake.

"During the planning phase for the project, drawbridges, ferries, and tunnels were considered as likely solutions to allowing the road to fully cross the lake. However, these were decided against, and the novel approach of building a short aqueduct over the road was selected." If you look on Google maps, the same road has a bridge over the same body of water only about a quarter of a mile from this acqeduct. Given that, I don't understand the quote above, nor do I understand why there was a need for this aqueduct. Maybe they built the aqueduct first, and later decided there was a need for larger boats to pass so then they built the bridge? Although the article states the aqueduct is only from 2002, which seems not that old for this kind of infrastructure.