Borki Lock - the third lock on the Augustów Canal

Augustów Canal

The Augustów Canal is a cross-border canal built in the 19th century in the present-day Podlaskie Voivodeship of northeastern Poland and the Hrodna Voblast of north-western Belarus...

 (from the Biebrza

Biebrza

Biebrza is a river in north-eastern Poland, a tributary of the Narew river , with a length of 155 kilometres and the basin area of 7,057 km2...

) and is located in Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

. It was completely destroyed during WW II and was rebuilt in 1948.

Rebuilt from the ground up in 1948 after the war. Concrete, single chamber. The lockable steel gates wspornymi, inflated circulation through the channels.

Manual drive. Max declined 3.19 m.

• Location: 19.25 kilometer
• Level difference: 2.89 m
• Length: 44.0 m
• Width: 6.10 m
• Gates: Metal
  Metal
  A metal , is an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat. Metals are usually malleable and shiny, that is they reflect most of incident light...
  
  
• Years Constructed: 1835-1836, rebuilt 1948
• Project manager: Eng. Wojciech Korczakowski