fumb duck, the gate is "open" (check the dictionary for the meaning of the
water) with the current south, **********AND********* is often open as well
when the current is north.

--------------------IN ------------------------ ADDITION
-------------------------- if there is a need for a lock (and there is not) to
move boats from one level of water to another when the current is north (that's
what you said, jeffies) then there is also a need to move boats from one water
level to another when the current is south. If that were not true, then the
bay would fill with water and never empty. It doesn't, jeffies, fill with
water to overflowing flooding all the land in Riverhead and other towns until
so much water is in the Bay it finaling floods across and empties into Long
Island Sound.

geesh, jeffies. do you read what you write?

From: Jeff Morris
Date: 12/11/2004 9:40 AM Eastern Standard Time
Message-id:

JAXAshby wrote:
Its a lock because it was built as a lock and continues to function as a
lock.


it does not function as a lock. it functions as a gate, which you plainly
state below (even as you fumb duckly say is "not relevant").


The fact that it is only used to when the current runs north
(as I pointed out in my first post) is not relevant.



It functions as a gate when the current runs south, as a lock when its
north. This seems to be too complex for your little mind to comprehend.