Aguasabon River

The Aguasabon River [ ˌ ɑ ː ː ɡwəsɑ bɨn ] is a river in Thunder Bay District in the Canadian province of Ontario.

The river has its origin in the chorus Lake and empties into Lake Superior near the village of Terrace Bay.

The Aguasabon River is 70 km long. He overcomes the 30 m high Aquasabon Falls. The river follows fractures in the 2.6 billion old bedrock. There are clues in the rocks of granodiorite.

Hydropower plant Aguasabon

Aguasabon Station consists of a dam and a connected hydropower plant, which is operated by Ontario Power Generation. The two turbines have a total capacity of 51 MW. The current is inter alia delivered to the Kimberly -Clark plant in Terrace Bay, which wood cardboard and paper produced.

In 1945, geological preliminary investigations for a planned hydroelectric power plant in Terrace Bay - area were carried out by the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario. Meanwhile, construction finally began in 1946 and the plant was put into operation in 1948. 5 million work hours as well as a traffic network of access roads, the construction of 25 buildings, residential units, infirmary, office buildings and other infrastructure were associated with it. The dam increased the Hays Lake to be five hundred times, required the relocation of the Ontario Highway 17 and the construction of a new bridge. As part of the project, the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario led the headwaters of the River Kenogami to head south to Long Lake and thus. Aguasabon in the river system of the River and the Lake Superior Originally, this water flowed north across the Albany River to Hudson Bay.