A power canal is a canal used for hydraulic power generation, rather than for transport of watercraft. The power canal was a major factor in the Industrial...
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Raritan Canal Dundee Canal Morris Canal Point Pleasant Canal Raritan Water Power Canal Washington Canal American Canal Franklin Canal Riverside Canal (El...
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Aqueducts: water supply canals that are used for the conveyance and delivery of potable water, municipal uses, hydro power canals and agriculture irrigation...
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The Edison Sault Power Canal supplies the Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant, a Cloverland Electric Cooperative hydroelectric plant, in Sault Ste. Marie...
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companies efforts to construct a canal used for hydraulic mill power. In 1918, the company merged with Niagara Falls Power Company, which later became Niagara...
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St. Marys River (Michigan–Ontario) (section Canal)
Station The Edison Sault Power Canal is used to power the Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant at its eastern end. The canal separated downtown Sault Ste...
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Lowell Power Canal System is the largest power canal system in the United States, at 5.6 miles in length. It is operating through six major canals on two...
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The Canal Solar Power Project is a solar canal project launched in Gujarat, India, to use the 532 km (331 mi) long network of Narmada canals across the...
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Nashua Manufacturing Company Historic District (redirect from Nashua power canal)
entirety of the Nashua River Canal is, up to and including the 1886 Mine Falls Gatehouse. This "Upper", or "Power canal" is 3 miles (5 km) long, 6 feet...
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Massena Power Canal, which connects the Saint Lawrence River to the lower Grass River. In 1833 the New York State Legislature chartered a canal to bypass...
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Massachusetts. In the early 1820s it became a major component of the Lowell power canal system. with the founding of the textile industry at what became Lowell...
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(Massachusetts), Lowell, Massachusetts Lowell Power Canal System and Pawtucket Gatehouse Pawtucket Canal Pawtucket tribe Two ships: USS Pawtucket (YT-7)...
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Raritan Water Power Canal in Raritan, New Jersey was a three-mile long water power canal built during the early 1840s to power industries. The canal has been...
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St. Anthony Falls Historic District (category Hydroelectric power plants in Minnesota)
mill area, particularly under gravel piles on the river side of the power canal. Remains were also found between the falls and Plymouth Ave. A great...
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Oroville–Thermalito Complex (redirect from Thermalito Power Canal)
system. All reservoirs and canals, combined, store about 3,620,000 acre-feet (4.47 km3) when at max capacity, and generate power from releases made through...
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The Holyoke Canal System is a system of power canals in Holyoke, Massachusetts. It is split into three canals based on elevation and distance from the...
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The Lachine Canal (French: Canal de Lachine, pronounced [kanal də laʃin]) is a canal passing through the southwestern part of the Island of Montreal, Quebec...
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site. Some of its foundations are still visible, as is the northern power canal trench. The 1855 brick mill on the southern, Central Falls side still...
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79°45′0″W / 9.12000°N 79.75000°W / 9.12000; -79.75000 The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometer (51-mile) waterway in Panama...
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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the...
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Saint Marys Falls Hydropower Plant (category Hydroelectric power plants in Michigan)
large generating stations still operating in the United States. The power canal and generator complex were begun in September 1898 and completed in June...
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The Canal Generating Plant is a petroleum and natural gas electrical power station in Sandwich, Massachusetts. Canal 1, a baseload unit, began operation...
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The Manchester Ship Canal is a 36-mile-long (58 km) inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea. Starting at the...
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The Centralia Canal, also known as Centralia Power Canal, is a canal in Thurston and Pierce counties, Washington, United States. It is the only feature...
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Hydropower (redirect from Hydel power)
hydropower turbine accounts for the head lost due to flow friction in the power canal or penstock, rise in tailwater level due to flow, the location of the...
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Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations (redirect from Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Power Stations)
anniversary of his death. The water is diverted through the Chippawa-Queenston Power Canal from the Welland River. As the first large-scale hydroelectric generation...
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through the construction of a dam and canal. His development concept was to sell mill sites along the power canal to those companies and to sell individual...
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The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic...
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Sea–Baltic Canal (Russian: Беломо́рско-Балти́йский кана́л, romanized: Belomórsko-Baltíyskiy kanál), often abbreviated to White Sea Canal (Belomorkanal)...
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solar panels above water, evaporation is lessened. Studies from the Canal Solar Power Project in India, show that the resulting shade helps reduce weeds...
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