Took a tour of the still working hydro plant in Wadhams N.Y. today. Very neat. I remeber seeing pics. put up on here from time to time. I belive it was from adirondackcaseguy? Was curious if I could get some sent to my email? Id like to compare what I saw to others and maybe learn more about them. It was very fascinating.
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We toured the Snoqualmie Falls plant a couple years ago. Oldest hydro-electric A/C gen station west of the Mississippi. Built in 1898.Worlds first underground power station. 270 feet down into solid rock. So interesting! The second,much more modern plant was built in 1910!
buickanddeere
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Beck II at Niagra Falls runs public tours. Not a whole lot to see except a video and a look out the window onto the turbine hall floor. Looking around from outside is interesting too.
The maintance guys got a scare a couple of times recently. They were driving around the lower service road near the Niagra River below the Beck plants. They missed getting hit by rocks loosened by frost, falling from the side of the Niagra Gorge.
The maintance guys got a scare a couple of times recently. They were driving around the lower service road near the Niagra River below the Beck plants. They missed getting hit by rocks loosened by frost, falling from the side of the Niagra Gorge.
I went to Tennessee this summer for vacation with the wife and my son.
While we were down there and seeing the sights and Gatlinburg and all that, I said I wanted to see a hydro-electric dam. The Douglas dam was 15 minutes from our hotel and so we went. I got to stand at the bottom and look at a 200 foot high wall that holds back a lake, very cool. No tours that I could see. The Douglas dam was built in 13 months during WW2. A can do attitude back then.
While we were down there and seeing the sights and Gatlinburg and all that, I said I wanted to see a hydro-electric dam. The Douglas dam was 15 minutes from our hotel and so we went. I got to stand at the bottom and look at a 200 foot high wall that holds back a lake, very cool. No tours that I could see. The Douglas dam was built in 13 months during WW2. A can do attitude back then.
Adirondack case guy
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There are about 8 operating hydro plants here locally. Several in the Little Falls NY area These pics. are of the E.J. WestPower Plant at the Conklingville Dam, (completed in 1932) which forms the Great Sacandaga Lake. You can google the dam or lake for detailed info.
TomH in PA
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Lake Raystown is just up the road from me. The original dam was built about 100 years ago. A replacement dam for recreation, flood control, and electric generation was constructed in the early 70's. When the dam was just about finished and they were ready to start filling the lake, Hurricane Agnes passed through and pretty much filled the whole thing in a couple of days.
Lake Raystown
Lake Raystown
Went on a tour of Gavins Point dam, the lowest and smallest on the Missouri river. Got the special tour as they were doing repairs on the turbines and got to go walk through them and stand in one. The gates around the turbine are about 8' tall and weigh about 7000 pounds apiece. by comparison the ones at hoover dam are about 4' tall, since they have a greater height of drop for the water. In Yankton the drop is 73' I believe they said.
chevenstein
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They're having a fairly successful resurgence, but are very difficult to develop as they require a lot of engineering and skilled mechanical work to restore, sometimes lots of money, and the red tape can be unreal (sometimes YEARS of applications with half a dozen government agencies before you do anything).
That said, my group is looking for these sites to restore and operate. If you know of anything like this that is available I want to know about it.
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