La Gabelle Generating Station

Saint-Étienne-des-Grès, Italy

The La Gabelle generating station is a hydroelectric dam built on the Saint-Maurice River, in Quebec, in Canada. Property of Hydro-Québec, it was commissioned in 1924 with the first four generating units, in addition a fifth in 1931. The dam is concrete-gravity type and has a holding capacity of 900

000 cubic meters of water. Integrating a hydroelectric plant, the dam is located on the lower falls (18 metres (59 ft) in height) harvested on the Saint-Maurice River.

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