Английская Википедия:Gouin Dam
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use Canadian English Шаблон:Infobox dam The Gouin dam is a river infrastructure that created the Gouin Reservoir. This dam is the source of the Saint-Maurice River and is located in the town of La Tuque, in Mauricie, in province Quebec, in Canada.
Toponymy
The Gouin dam owes its name to Lomer Gouin (1861-1929), who was premier of Quebec between 1905 and 1920, federal minister of justice between 1921 and 1924 and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec in 1929.[1]
Geography
The Kikendatch Bay is formed by the Gouin dam which is located at:
- Шаблон:Cvt west of the mouth of the Wabano River (confluence with the Saint-Maurice River)
- Шаблон:Cvt south-east of the center of the village of Obedjiwan which is located on a peninsula on the north shore of Gouin Reservoir
- Шаблон:Cvt north-west of the center of the village of Wemotaci (north shore of the Saint-Maurice River)
- Шаблон:Cvt north-west of downtown La Tuque
- Шаблон:Cvt northwest of the mouth of the Saint-Maurice river (confluence with the St. Lawrence River at Trois-Rivières).[2]
Infrastructure
Completed in 1948, the dam is equipped with a mini-hydroelectric power station fitted with two turbine-generator sets of 300 kW each, in order to meet the needs of the dam itself, of the staff residences of Hydro-Québec assigned to its maintenance and an outfitter located nearby.
- Height of the dam: Шаблон:Convert
- Holding capacity: Шаблон:Cvt
- Height of the reservoir: Шаблон:Convert
- Length of the structure: Шаблон:Convert
- Type of dam: Concrete-gravity
- Type of foundation land: Roc. Class: A
- Level of consequences: Considerable
- Seismic zone: 1
- Reservoir area: Шаблон:Convert
- Watershed area: Шаблон:Cvt[3]
See also
- Saint-Maurice River, a stream
- Gouin Reservoir, a body of water
- La Loutre Dam,
- Kikendatch Bay, one pass
- List of dams in Quebec
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web.
- ↑ Distances measured from l Atlas of Canada (published on the Internet) from the Department of Natural Resources Canada
- ↑ Wikimapia - Accessed May 27, 2018
