Chute-Allard Generating Station
| Chute-Allard Dam | |
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 Location of Chute-Allard Dam in Canada
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| Official name | Chute-Allard Generating Station |
| Coordinates | 47°53′34.32″N 73°43′5.92″W / 47.8928667°N 73.7183111°WCoordinates: 47°53′34.32″N 73°43′5.92″W / 47.8928667°N 73.7183111°W |
| Construction began | 2005 |
| Opening date | 2009 |
| Dam and spillways | |
| Height | 17.5 m (57 ft) |
| Power station | |
| Commission date | 2008/2009 |
| Turbines | 6 x 10.3 MW Kaplan-type (Saxo) |
| Installed capacity | 62 MW |
The Chute-Allard Generating Station is a hydroelectric dam erected on the Saint-Maurice River by Hydro-Québec near Wemotaci, in the administrative region of Mauricie, in Quebec, in Canada. This plant, with an installed capacity of 62 MW and Rapides-des-Coeurs located downstream were put into service in 2008. Their construction was completed in 2009.
Chute-Allard Generating Station is located less than five kilometers downstream from the territory of Wemotaci and 4.5 km downstream from the Weymont railway station. The power plant was built at kilometer point 297.6 on a large island forming two arms of the river. The plant has been built in the north arm of the rapids.
Permanent access to the site is possible from La Tuque, by road 25 up to km 82; then a forest path leads on the right bank of the Saint-Maurice River near the downstream part of the fall-Allard.
In this sector, the Canadian National Railway, linking La Tuque and Senneterre, was built south of the Saint-Maurice River, except for a segment approximately of 12.5 kilometers built on the north shore. The railway crosses the Saint-Maurice River, by the railway bridge built at km 302.5 (at Wemotaci) and the one of 290 km, just upstream of the "Rapides de la Graisse (du Lièvre)". The CN Railway runs along the north shore of the water reservoir created by the hydroelectric dam at Chute-Allard. Small railway stations in the sector are: Ferguson (at km 267.5 km, 3.5 km upstream of Rapides-des-Coeurs), Vandry (at km 284), Dessane (at km 291) and Weymont (at km 301.5, near Wemotaci).
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