New York State Canal Corporation Daily Lock Reports B1792

New York State Canal Corporation Daily Lock Reports

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Overview of the Records

Repository:

New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230

Summary:

This series consists of a variety of traffic related forms and paperwork recording activities at a canal lock. Statistics derived from the forms were used for budgeting, planning, and determining staffing patterns. Records include daily reports of passages, boats, and lockages; weekly reports of detained vessels; navigators' reports of obstructions, hazards, or collisions; and violation and incident reports. Reports generally include location, date, climatic data, vessels, operating personnel or individuals involved in incidents, and narrative accounts of incidents.

Creator:

New York State Canal Corporation

Title:

Daily lock reports

Quantity:

11 cubic feet

Inclusive Dates:

1990-1997

Series Number:

B1792

Arrangement

Roughly chronological, then by type of document.

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of traffic related forms maintained by the main Albany office of the New York State Canal Corporation and its predecessor agencies. A variety of traffic related forms and paperwork are maintained by lock employees for the purpose of creating a permanent record of the various activities at a lock. These records include: daily reports of passages, boats, and lockages; pool elevation recordings; special clearances for commercial floats; weekly reports of vessels detained at locks; navigators' reports of obstruction, hazardous physical condition, or collision; reports of incidents that may result in filing of a claim, and a reports of violations of the canal rules and regulations. The statistics derived from the forms become an historical reference used for budgeting, planning the future direction of the Canal, and determining staffing patterns.

Information in the reports generally includes location, date, climatic data, vessels, operating personnel or individuals involved in incidents, and narrative accounts of incidents.