Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Most outflow is diverted 4.5 kilometres (2.8 mi) past Corra Linn along the Kootenay Canal to the more efficient generating station opened in 1976. Kootenay basin reservoirs provide nearly 7,000,000 acre-feet (8.6 km 3 ) of storage which constitutes almost half of the 15,500,000 acre-feet (19.1 km 3 ) stored in Columbia River Treaty reservoirs.
Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in Indiana.. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50 feet (15 m) tall with a storage capacity of at least 5,000 acre-feet (6,200,000 m 3), or of any height with a storage capacity of 25,000 acre-feet (31,000,000 m 3).
Commercial demand led to two more dams at the falls, these were South Slocan Dam in 1928, [114] and Corra Linn Dam, at the rapids above Bonnington in 1932. [115] Three of the dams are of the run-of-the-river type, the 4.5 km length of the falls is now impounded in small lakes. All except Corra Linn, which was built to raise and regulate the ...
Kootenay Canal powerhouse. The Kootenay Canal is a hydroelectric power station, located 19 km downstream of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.Where the Kootenay River flows out of the reservoir formed by the Corra Linn Dam on Kootenay Lake., [3] a canal diverts water to BC Hydro's Kootenay Canal Generating Station.
The Lanark Hydro Electric Scheme is situated between Corra Linn and Dundaff Linn, with a water inlet at Bonnington Linn, and is considered the oldest of the United Kingdom. [ 5 ] The scheme was conceived in 1925 under the chairmanship of Sir Edward MacColl [ 6 ] and was completed in 1927 as the first hydro-electric power station in Scotland ...
It is on Big Run which is a tributary of the Muddy Fork River which is part of the Ohio River system. [4] The lake is impounded by Deam Lake Dam which is an earthen dam that is 59 feet (18 m) high and 1,200 feet (370 m) long. [4] Deam Lake is open for fishing, swimming and boating. Boats are limited to electric motors.
Richard Lieber was instrumental in the foundation of the Indiana State Park system. The first state park in Indiana was McCormick's Creek State Park, in Owen County in 1916, followed in the same year by Turkey Run State Park in Parke County. The number of state parks rose steadily in the 1920s, mostly by donations of land from local authorities ...
Spring Mill State Park is a 1,358-acre (5 km 2) state park in the state of Indiana. The park is located to the south of Bloomington, about 3 miles (5 km) east of the city of Mitchell on Indiana Highway 60. It contains a settler's village, the Gus Grissom Memorial (with the accompanying Gemini 3 space capsule), a nature center, and campgrounds.