Everything about The Aguasabon River totally explained
The
Aguasabon River is a
river in
Thunder Bay District,
Ontario,
Canada. The river originates at
Long Lake and empties into
Lake Superior.
The Aguasabon is in length, and plunges down at
Aguasabon Falls near
Terrace Bay. The river follows fractures in the 2.6 billion-year-old bedrock, and the exposed rock is
granodiorite.
In
1948, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario, now
Ontario Power Generation, diverted the waters of
Long Lake to empty through the Aguasabon river into
Lake Superior, rather than flowing towards
Hudson Bay via the
Kenogami River.
Aguasabon station
Aguasabon Station is a two unit
hydroelectric power plant run by
Ontario Power Generation. It generates power to support the
Kimberly-Clark pulp and paper plant at
Terrace Bay, Ontario.
In 1945, the
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario began preliminary
survey work for a planned hydroelectric facility in the Terrace Bay area. The commission received criticism from the cities of
Fort William and
Port Arthur, due to its location far from those communities, but the plan went ahead when the Long Lac Pulp and Paper Company founded a town on
Terrace Bay and constructed a new
pulp mill.
Construction of commenced in 1946 and the facility was operating in 1948. The development required five million hours of
labour, a network of access roads, and the erection of 25 buildings including staff housing, a hospital, administration office, pump house, machine shops and laundry. The dam enlarged Hays Lake to five hundred times its original size, and forced the relocation of
Ontario Highway 17, requiring a new bridge be constructed.
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