Major construction underway on Hydro Ottawa’s Chaudiere Falls expansion
Posted Nov 16, 2015 01:45:21 PM.
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OTTAWA — Scheduled to be complete in 2017, this below-ground hydro-electric station will generate enough hydro to power 20,000 homes each year.
It is being built entirely below ground, to lessen the impact to the surrounding area.
“We choose to make this facility below-grade so that we wouldn’t obstruct any of the views, and to be respectful of what makes Chaudiere so special,” said Energy Ottawa CEO Greg Clarke during a tour of the site Monday.”
“The project is designed to have minimal-to-zero impact on this visual, natural, and aquatic environment.”
Clarke also pointed out that this expansion will do something that hasn’t been done in a hundred years: it will give people open access to the Chaudiere Falls.
There will be three viewing platforms, a defined corridor on the roof, and a bridge across the intake canal for pedestrians and cyclists.
The President and CEO of Hydro Ottawa says Algonquins of Ontario were consulted on the plans, and have seen and approved of the designs.
