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Ontario hydro construction: on-schedule at Niagara
Most recent project includes reservoir, pump generating station and enlargement of plant's forebay and headworks; generators will add 175,000 kw to project's overall output; tunnels have excavated diam of 51 ft; drill holes, about 19 ft deep, are charged with 2.65 lb powder per cu yd solid rock excavated; average thickness of tunnel wall is 3 ft; concrete for tunnels and intake amounts to 1,100,000 cu yd; concrete plant can deliver 180 cu yd per hr.
Ontario hydro construction: on-schedule at Niagara
Most recent project includes reservoir, pump generating station and enlargement of plant's forebay and headworks; generators will add 175,000 kw to project's overall output; tunnels have excavated diam of 51 ft; drill holes, about 19 ft deep, are charged with 2.65 lb powder per cu yd solid rock excavated; average thickness of tunnel wall is 3 ft; concrete for tunnels and intake amounts to 1,100,000 cu yd; concrete plant can deliver 180 cu yd per hr.
Ontario hydro construction: on-schedule at Niagara
Eng News-Rec
Engineering News-Record ; 151
1953
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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Ontario hydro project at Niagara Falls
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
Ontario hydro project at Niagara Falls
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1953
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1905
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1905
| Engineering Index Backfile | 1905