Nechako Reservoir
The Nechako Reservoir, sometimes called the Ootsa Lake Reservoir, is a hydroelectric reservoir in British Columbia, Canada that was formed by the Kenney Dam making a diversion of the Nechako River through a 16-km intake tunnel in the Kitimat Ranges of the Coast Mountains to the 890 MW Kemano Generating Station at sea level at Kemano to service the then-new Alcan aluminum smelter at Kitimat.- Reservoir
- …has a surface elevation of around 850 metres (2,790 feet)
- Description: reservoir in British Columbia, Canada
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
53.74977° or 53° 44′ 59″ north
Longitude
-126.00606° or 126° 0′ 22″ west
Open location code
945MPXXV+WH
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Nechako Reservoir” goes by many names.
НечакоBulgarian
Nechako ReservoirCebuano
尼查科水库Chinese
尼查科水庫Chinese
Nechako ReservoirDutch
Nechako ReservoirNorwegian Bokmål
Nechako ReservoirSwedish
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