Division C INLAND WATERWAY

Inland waterway infrastructure consists of the following items:

• land,

• channel (earthworks, canal basins and linings, sills, groynes, berms, tow-paths and service roads), bank protection, canal-carrying aqueducts, siphons and conduits, canal tunnels, service basins used exclusively for sheltering vessels,

• works for waterway shut-off and safety, spillways for the discharge by gravity of impounded water, basins and reservoirs for storing water for feeding and regulating water level, water control structures, flow gauges, level recorders and warning devices,

• barrages or weirs (works constructed across the bed of a river to maintain sufficient depth of water for navigation and to reduce the speed of flow by creating pounds or reaches), associated structures (fish ladders, relief channels),

• navigation locks, lifts and inclined planes, including waiting basins and basins for water economy,

• mooring equipment and guide jetties (mooring buoys, dolphins, mooring bitts, bollards, rails and fenders),

• movable bridges,

• installations for channel buoying, signalling, safety, telecommunications and lighting,

• installations for controlling traffic,

• toll collection installations,

• buildings used by the infrastructure department.