Around 1816, John Rutherfurd, the third of the Commissioners of the 1811 Plan, hired Randel to survey a route for the proposed Delaware & Raritan Canal between the Delaware and Raritan Rivers. This Randel did, estimating water flows with the aid of a millwright.Holloway, p.179 In 1819 he drew up plane out a route for a canal to carry ships and sloops from Albany.Gray, pp. 45–46
