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Here’s a document “salinity intrusion in the Panama Canal”: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA378475.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA378475.pdf Graphs at
by aziaziazi 3y ago
Here’s a document “salinity intrusion in the Panama Canal”: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA378475.pdf https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA378475.pdf
Graphs at page 32 and onward shows that you could (in theory) pump salt water in one more lock upward in both sides. It will make the last lock before lake at 0.5ppt (Atlantic) and 1.32ppt (Pacific). Fresh water is 0-0.5ppt.
- dumbo-octopus 3y agoSo you could cut water by half while still keeping the last lock "fresh", and so long as the incoming flow is more than 2.5x the mixing rate, you could do the same on the pacific side.