List of dams and reservoirs in Canada explained
This is a list of dams and water reservoirs in Canada.
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador
- Smallwood Reservoir, Churchill Falls generating station, largest capacity in North America (5,428 MW installed, expandable to 9,252 MW); the world's second-largest reservoir.
- Ossokmanuan Reservoir, Twin Falls generating station (diverted to Churchill Falls)
- Cat Arm Reservoir, Cat Arm Hydroelectric Generating Station
- Star Lake, Star Lake generating station
- Hinds Lake, Hinds Lake Hydroelectric Generating Station
- Deer Lake, Deer Lake generating station
- Paradise River Dam, Paradise River Hydroelectric Generating Station (the largest concrete arch dam in Eastern North America)
- Grand Falls Dam, Exploits River generating station
- Bishops Falls Dam, Bishops Falls generating station
Ontario
Large hydroelectric
Small Hydroelectric
Non hydroelectric
Planned Upgrades or Projects
- Umbata Falls Hydroelectric Project - Installed capacity of 23MW Q2 2008. This project in progress is a partnership of the Pic River First Nation and Innergex II Income Fund (on the White River, near Marathon).
- Island Falls Hydroelectric Project - Installed capacity of 20 mW Q4 2009. Canadian Hydro Developers Inc. Location: Smooth Rock Falls.
- Glen Miller Hydroelectric Project - Innergex II Income Fund (Trenton).
Hydroelectric generation under development
- Little Long, Harmon, Kipling and Smoky Falls - 450MW
- Lower Sturgeon, Sandy Falls and Wawaitin - 16MW
- Mattagami Lake Dam - 5MW
Quebec
Saskatchewan
See also: Saskatchewan Water Security Agency.
- Arm Lake Dam (also known as Craik Dam)
- Avonlea Dam
- Boundary Dam
- Blackstrap North Dam
- Blackstrap South Dam
- Braddock Dam
- Bradwell East Dam
- Bradwell West Dam
- Brightwater Creek Dam
- Broderick North Dam
- Broderick West Dam
- Buffalo Pound Dam
- Candle Lake Dam
- Chicken Lake Dam
- Cowan Lake Dam
- Craven Dam
- Crooked Lake Dam
- Darmody Dam
- Dellwood Brook Dam
- Duncairn Dam
- E.B. Campbell Hydroelectric Station
- Echo Lake Dam
- Francois-Finlay Dam
- Gardiner Dam
- Grant Devine Dam
- Island Falls Dam
- Katepwa Dam
- Kingsway Dam
- Kipahigan Lake Dam
- Lac la Plonge Dam
- Lac la Ronge Dam
- Makwa Lake Control
- Moose Mountain Dam
- Moosomin Dam
- Opuntia Lake Control
- Pike Lake Water Supply
- Qu'Appelle River Dam
- Rafferty Dam
- Round Lake Dam
- Scott Dam
- Spruce River Dam
- Star City Dam
- Summercove Dam
- Tee-Pee Creek Dam
- Theodore Dam
- Valeport Dam
- Wascana Lake Weir
- West Poplar Dam
- Whitesand Dam
- Zelma Dam
Yukon
See also
- List of generating stations in Canada
References
- http://www.bchydro.com/bcrp/about/docs/ch15_final.pdf Fish & Wildlife Compensation Program
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