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Mica Dam is a hydroelectric embankment dam spanning the Columbia River 135 kilometres north of Revelstoke, British Columbia, Canada. It was built as one of three Canadian projects under the terms of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty and is operated by BC Hydro .
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Mica Creek is a small village in British Columbia, Canada that was used as a base of operations for the construction of the Mica Dam hydroelectric project by BC Hydro in the 1960s and 1970s. It is located 148 km north of Revelstoke , British Columbia on Highway 23 and situated at the convergence of the Revelstoke Lake (the Columbia River ) and ...
Highway 23 is a north–south highway that straddles the Columbia River in the Columbia Country region of British Columbia, Canada. Its section north of Revelstoke is formerly known as the Big Bend Highway and was part of the original routing of Highway 1. The Big Bend area was well known as there was a gold rush there, beginning in 1864.
The construction of the tunnel was assigned to the Eyholz main tunnel consortium (Arge AHE), which includes the companies Frutiger AG, Interalp Bau AG from Visp, CSC – a subsidiary of the Italian Salini Impregilo – and the Austrian Jäger Bau. The tunnel leads through unconsolidated rock, breccia and calcareous mica schist.
Interstate Highway System: 1992–2006 $14.6 billion [1] [2] 1982 $8.08 billion $25.5 billion Big Dig, Boston, Massachusetts: 2000–2022 $1.4 billion [3] 2022 I-5 - SR 16 Tacoma/Pierce County HOV Program, Tacoma, Washington (Interstate 5 in Washington) 2002–2013 $6.5 billion [4] $8.5 billion
The Site C Dam is a hydroelectric dam currently under construction on the Peace River, 14 kilometers southwest of Fort St. John in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. It is located approximately 80 kilometers downstream from the W. A. C. Bennett Dam.
Construction of Revelstoke Dam started in 1978, and was completed in 1983. [4]Areas inundated by the dam include the Dalles des Morts or "Death Rapids", which was the stretch of canyon just above the dam's location, and various small localities along the pre-inundation route of the Big Bend Highway, which was the original route of the Trans-Canada Highway until the building of its Rogers Pass ...