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.- Type: Reservoir
- Description: reservoir in British Columbia, Canada
- Also known as: “Kenney-Damm”, “Kenney-Staudamm”, and “Ootsa Lake”
Nechako Reservoir
- Category: body of water
- Location: British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude
53.74977° or 53° 44′ 59″ north
Longitude
-126.00606° or 126° 0′ 22″ west
Elevation
850 metres (2,789 feet)
Open location code
945MPXXV+WH
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swedish—“Nechako Reservoir” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Нечако”
- Cebuano: “Nechako Reservoir”
- Chinese: “尼查科水库”
- Chinese: “尼查科水庫”
- Dutch: “Nechako Reservoir”
- French: “réservoir Nechako”
- French: “Réservoir Nechako”
- German: “Nechako Reservoir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nechako Reservoir”
- Portuguese: “Lago Ootsa”
- Swedish: “Nechako Reservoir”
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Places to explore: Ootsa Lake and Skin Lake Indian Reserve 15.
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