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In 1887, the Capilano River was selected as the source of water supply for the City of Vancouver.An intake pipe was constructed 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) upstream of the mouth of the river, and a pipeline carried this water across the First Narrows of Burrard Inlet and into the City of Vancouver.
In the following table, material data are given with a pressure of 611.7 Pa (equivalent to 0.006117 bar). Up to a temperature of 0.01 °C, the triple point of water, water normally exists as ice, except for supercooled water, for which one data point is tabulated here. At the triple point, ice can exist together with both liquid water and vapor.
Construction of the tunnel between Coquitlam Lake and Buntzen Lake began in 1902 and finished in 1905, supplying water to powerhouses on Indian Arm, which supplied electricity to Vancouver. [ 2 ] The first Coquitlam Dam , built to raise the water level by 5 feet (1.52 m), was begun in April 1904 and completed in 1905.
The Yakoun River (Haida: Yaaguun G̱andlee [6]) is the largest river of Haida Gwaii, in the province of British Columbia, Canada. [1] Located on Graham Island it flows about 58 km (36 mi) [4] from Yakoun Lake north to Masset Inlet, a large saltwater bay located in the heart of the Graham Island and connected to the Pacific Ocean at Dixon Entrance via a long narrow inlet called Masset Sound.
Powell Lake is a lake in the northern Sunshine Coast region of British Columbia, Canada, adjacent to the city of Powell River, which sits on the low rise of land forming a natural dam between the lake and the Strait of Georgia.
Mica Dam was built to provide 8.6 km 3 (7 million acre-feet) of water storage as outlined in the Columbia River Treaty, plus another 6.2 km 3 (5 million acre-feet), referred to as "non-Treaty storage". Since 1977, BC Hydro and the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have made a series of long and short term agreements for using non-Treaty ...
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Tsillatko (or alternative spellings), the Shuswap name for the river, translates to "cold water". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The earliest known documented use of the Coldwater River name is 1875. [ 4 ] G.M. Dawson's Southern Interior of B.C. map (1877) is the earliest map adopting this name.