The Kenney Dam is a rock-fill embankment dam on the Nechako River in northwestern British Columbia, built in the early 1950s. The impoundment of water...
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Cheslatta Lake (section Impact of Kenney Dam)
Cheslatta Lake and the smaller Murray Lake it joins, prior to the flooding by Kenney Dam construction, "were quite productive at all trophic levels including fish...
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Canada Kenney Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Nechako River, British Columbia, Canada Kenney Glacier, Trinity Peninsula, Antarctica Kenney Nunatak,...
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many dams to build up a large volume before operation can begin. For this type of reservoir only a small portion of the water held behind the dam is useful...
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Columbia. It flows through the Nechako Plateau. Before the construction of Kenney Dam in the early 1950s the Cheslatta was a minor tributary of the Nechako...
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(Tsetl'adak Bunk'ut - ″Peak Rock Lake″) flooded due to the construction of the Kenney Dam. which created Nechako Reservoir, in 1952. Most members now live on a...
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projects of the 20th century. The project required not only building the Kenney Dam to reverse the Nechako River, but also boring a 16 km (10 mi) tunnel under...
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Kemano Generating Station (category Pages using infobox dam which are not about dams)
was made possible by constructing the largest rockfill dam in the world at the time, the Kenney Dam on the east side of the Nechako reservoir, some 193 km...
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a reserve 9 km (6 mi) southwest of Vanderhoof, British Columbia along Kenney Dam Road. Saik'uz is a member of the Carrier Sekani Tribal Council. The Saik'uz...
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hydroelectric reservoir in British Columbia, Canada that was formed by the Kenney Dam making a diversion of the Nechako River through a 16-km intake tunnel...
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Duncan Dam (Duncan Lake) Horseshoe Dam Elk Falls Dam (Elk River) John Hart Dam Jordan River Diversion Dam Hugh Keenleyside Dam (Arrow Lakes) Kenney Dam (Nechako...
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negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the Kenney Dam. Coalition government collapsed when Conservatives left to form the Official...
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the Nechako at the foot of the Nechako Canyon via Cheslatta Falls, near Kenney Dam and the Nechako Reservoir. The expedition of Alexander MacKenzie went...
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After the war, an increase in lumber prices and the construction of the Kenney Dam lead to increases in population again. Today Vanderhoof is a service centre...
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Creek Moxley Creek Skins Lake Spillway Nechako Canyon Nechako Reservoir (Kenney Dam) Knewstubb Lake (part of Nechako Reservoir) Natalkuz Lake (Nechako Reservoir)...
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by damming the outlets of natural lakes to regulate water levels, such as ones at Uganda's Owen Falls Dam (Lake Victoria) and Russia's Irkutsk Dam (Lake...
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The Kenney Dam on the Nechako River was named after him. Normandin, A L (1940). Canadian Parliamentary Guide 1940. "Edward Tourtellotte Kenney fonds"...
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Draw". National Inventory of Dams. 2018-08-05. Archived from the original on 2019-09-01. Retrieved 2021-06-23. "Kenney Reservoir". The Rangely Area Chamber...
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negotiated the Alcan Agreement, which facilitated construction of the Kenney Dam, the first major hydroelectric project in the province. The government...
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to support a large aluminum smelter. To power the smelter Alcan built Kenney Dam on the Nechako River, a 16 km (10 mi) tunnel to the Kemano Generating...
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continent's most productive salmon fisheries. Kemano, British Columbia Kenney Dam Moran (disambiguation) Adjusted for inflation from a figure of $500 million...
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the sites. Between 1951 and 1954, 6,000 construction workers built the Kenney Dam, tunnel, powerhouse, transmission line, smelter, and townsite. There remains...
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124°34′12″W / 54.0560°N 124.5700°W / 54.0560; -124.5700 Dam Kenney Dam Road Kenney Dam 53°34′45″N 124°57′01″W / 53.5792°N 124.9502°W / 53.5792;...
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trade, travel and communication line, until the construction of the Alcan Kenney Dam in 1952 caused flooding of the Cheslatta River and Cheslatta Lake, forcing...
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episode of Impact! Van Dam aligned himself with fellow ECW alumni Tommy Dreamer, Raven, Stevie Richards, Rhino, Brother Devon, Pat Kenney, Al Snow and Mick...
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away is Cheslatta Falls at the mouth of the Cheslatta River, and the Kenney Dam. The Nechako region is the lowest-populated region in British Columbia...
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Glen Canyon Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the southwestern United States, located on the Colorado River in northern Arizona, near the city of Page...
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installed. In October 1952, when the diversion tunnel at the upstream Kenney Dam was closed, the water level at the ferry dropped 1 metre (3 ft) within...
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Billings Reservoir (redirect from Billings Dam)
Asa White Kenney Billings, the American hydroelectric engineer who was instrumental in building it. The Portuguese word represa also means "dam". The reservoir...
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The river is dammed in two places, both in Colorado. Taylor Draw Dam creates Kenney Reservoir near Rangely, and the Johnnie Johnson Dam impounds Rio Blanco...
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