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Fish screens, fish ladder, and related features were also present at the site. [4] The dam produced power at peak times, meaning sometimes it produces electricity and returns water to the river; other times only a small amount of water is returned to the river. This causes a "bathtub" ring effect downstream of the plant's turbines.
Power Plant and Dam No. 4 is a historic hydroelectric power generation station on the Potomac River, located near Shepherdstown on the county line between Berkeley and Jefferson County, West Virginia. The power plant is a tall one-story, limestone building on a high stone foundation. It is five bays long and has a gable roof.
The power plant is a two-story brick building on the West Virginia side of the river. It was built circa 1900 as the Honeywood paper mill. The first Honeywood Mill was built at the same time as the dam, in 1835 by Edward Colston. It burned a few years later and was replaced, then burned in the Civil War. [4]
Most of the hydro dams on the Volga and Kama; see Zhiguli Hydroelectric Station for a list. Angara River dams: Irkutsk Hydroelectric Power Station, Bratsk Hydroelectric Power Station, Ust-Ilimsk Hydroelectric Power Station. Yenisei River dams: Krasnoyarsk Dam, Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam; Inguri Dam, Georgia; Nurek Dam, Tajikistan; Rogun Dam ...
Moragolla is the last major Hydro Power Plant in Mahaweli Ganga Hydro Power Scheme. The project site is located on the upper reaches of the Mahaweli Ganga in the Central Highlands, approximately 22 km south of Kandy City, close to the village of Ulapane in Kandy district and about 130 km north-east of Colombo.
Kerckhoff Dam is a concrete arch dam on the San Joaquin River in Fresno County, California, about 10 mi (16 km) southwest of Big Creek.The 114 ft (35 m) tall dam is a run-of-the-river facility impounding 4,252 acre⋅ft (5,245,000 m 3) of water and is the primary feature of Pacific Gas and Electric's Kerckhoff hydroelectric project. [3]
The Beles Hydroelectric Power Plant, sometimes referred to as Beles II or Tana Beles, is a run-of-the-river [1] hydroelectric power plant in Ethiopia near Lake Tana.The power plant receives water from the lake through the Tana-Beles interbasin transfer and after utilizing it to produce electricity, the water is then discharged into the Beles River.
The final power plant in the system is located in the village of Vrben and operates with two generators. The power plant system has a total water accumulation of 275,000,000 cubic metres (9.7 × 10 9 cu ft) and the capacity to produce 445 gigawatt-hours (1,600 TJ) of electricity annually. It is one of the largest and most complex hydroelectric ...