Kootenay Canal

The Kootenay Canal is a hydroelectric power station, located 19 km downstream of Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. Where the Kootenay River flows out of the reservoir formed by the Corra Linn Dam on Kootenay Lake, a canal diverts water to BC Hydro's Kootenay Canal Generating Station.

Photo: Dougmcdonell, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Industrial building
Description: hydroelectric power station
Also known as: “Kootenay Canal Generating Station”

Kootenay Canal

Categories: hydroelectric power station, building, and industry
Location: Nelson, Regional District of Central Kootenay, British Columbia, Canada, North America
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Latitude

49.45323° or 49° 27′ 12″ north

Longitude

-117.51787° or 117° 31′ 4″ west

Inception

1976

Operator

Open location code

85X4FF3J+7V

OpenStreetMap ID

OpenStreetMap feature

building=industrial

Wikidata ID

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In Other Languages

From Norwegian to Ukrainian—“Kootenay Canal” goes by many names.

Norwegian Bokmål: “Kootenay Canal-demningen”
Norwegian: “Kootenay Canal-demningen”
Russian: “ГЭС Кутеней-Канал”
Russian: “Кутеней-Канал”
Ukrainian: “ГЕС Кутеней-Канал”
Ukrainian: “Кутеней-Канал”

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