The Romanian government's six problematic meanders: good for the biosphere, bad for shipping.
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Transforming the Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve's meandering George Channel into Romania's fourth straight shipping canal connecting the Danube to the Black Sea (and the second within the Danube Delta) requires as a first step the digging of trenches to bypass the six numbered meanders.
Detail from Soviet map of Romania's Tulcea district, L-35-XXX, published in 1983; six numbers in boxes added.
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