Kootenay Lake

Kootenay Lake is a 407 km ² reservoir on the Kootenay River in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The reservoir is part of the river system of the Columbia River.

The Kootenay River is dammed 30 km from its confluence with the Columbia River through the 1930-1932 Corra Linn Dam was built on Kootenay Lake. The existing concrete dam has 14 Sagittarius. The reservoir was created until the end of 1938. Hydropower station has three generators with a capacity of 49 MW and uses a gradient of 16 m.

About the Kootenay Lake performs a ferry from Kootenay Bay to Balfour with a transfer time of 35 minutes. It's like all Canadian domestic ferries free of charge.