Locks #16 and #17 are part of the Trent-Severn Waterway.
"Placed into service in 1913, Healey Falls GS originally had three units. In 2010, OPG completed a project to increase the plant’s capacity by adding a new 6.4-megawatt (MW) unit, bringing the station’s total combined capacity to 18 MW." It is units G2 and G3, which share the original middle penstock, that are being overhauled. [opg]
Ontario Power Generation posted two photos with the comment: "On the Trent River, near Campbellford, you can find our 109-year-old Healey Falls Generating Station. The station is currently [Oct 2022] undergoing a 10-month-long overhaul on two of its generating units. This important work will ensure the station can continue to generate reliable and carbon-free electricity for many more decades to come. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3e6cc2w"
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"Placed into service in 1913, Healey Falls GS originally had three units. In 2010, OPG completed a project to increase the plant’s capacity by adding a new 6.4-megawatt (MW) unit, bringing the station’s total combined capacity to 18 MW." It is units G2 and G3, which share the original middle penstock, that are being overhauled. [opg]
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| HydroReview It celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2013. |
"OPG owns and operates 65 hydroelectric stations across Ontario. More than half of these stations have provided clean renewable energy to Ontario for more than 80 years." [NewsWire,]
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| Ontario Power Generation Flickr, License: Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) |
A satellite image showed that the canal between Locks #16+#17 and Lock #15 was dry.
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A photo shows that at least the lower lock (#16) was rebuilt.
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| Filipe Costa, May 2019 |
They have been working on it for at least a couple of years.
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| james poisson, Dec 2017 |
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| Filipe Costa, Dec 2018 |
Here is an "after" photo. I found a photo with a boat in the lock in Aug 2021.
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| Justin Shaw, May 2022 |
Skip about the first 1.5 minutes in this video to get to info on this facility. This view reminds me that it took a while at the interesting turn of the century to develop the thrust bearing that is needed for units to use a vertical shaft. They horizontal shaft units are 4mw each. As expected, the 6mw unit that was installed in 2010 has a vertical shaft.
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When I first saw the spillway on the side of the powerhouse, I had assumed it was to add oxygen to the downstream water. But when I saw this image, I thought that the flume is a way to automatically remove the debris from the trash screens. But according to the video around 3:11, it is an ice sluice that spills water well after the winter months to support fish spawning. The video shows that the plant has mechanical screen cleaners.
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Before they rebuilt #16, they rebuilt the west wall of #17.
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| ptbocanada "Since October 2016, Parks Canada has been working on repairs to the west wall at Healey Falls Lock 17 on the Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site. The work has been progressing well and contractors are on track to complete repairs prior to navigation season in May 2017." |
27:14 mixed-speed video going downbound in Aug 2014 The old concrete walls do look worse for the wear. At 26:00, the boat enters Lock #15.
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