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Generally, the big risk with elevated freshwater lakes connected to the sea by locks isn't saltwater contamination, but the disastrous flood that would happen if all the lock gates were opened at the same time. A lot of work was put into the safety measures, most of which have been removed due to cost in recent decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal_locks#Safety_feat...

If a flight of locks was completely opened, Gatún would promptly drain out of them, wiping out everything downstream. You could imagine the entire canal would be offline for months to years as infrastructure was rebuilt and the lake was refilled by rainwater.

  In 2006, Tor research was funded was through a no-bid
  federal contract awarded to Dingledine’s consulting
  company, Moria Labs. And starting in 2007, the Pentagon
  cash came directly through the Tor Project itself —
  thanks to the fact that Team Tor finally left EFF and
  registered its own independent 501(c)(3) non-profit.

  How dependent was — and is — Tor on support from
  federal government agencies like the Pentagon?

  In 2007, it appears that all of Tor’s funding came from
  the federal government via two grants. A quarter million
  came from the International Broadcasting Bureau (IBB), a
  CIA spinoff that now operates under the Broadcasting Board
  of Governors. IBB runs Voice of America and Radio Marti, a
  propaganda outfit aimed at subverting Cuba’s communist
  regime. The CIA supposedly cut IBB financing in the 1970s
  after its ties to Cold War propaganda arms like Radio Free
  Europe were exposed.

  The second chunk of cash — just under $100,000 — came
  from Internews, an NGO aimed at funding and training
  dissident and activists abroad. Tor’s subsequent tax
  filings show that grants from Internews were in fact
  conduits for “pass through” grants from the US State
  Department.