Going down...1327ft!I had a great workout yesterday. It was the first leg workout since I have been back to my new workout routine after my recovery week.
I will show you my workout later in this post as you gotta see what I did on Saturday...
On Saturday my wife and I, my parents and my cousin and her husband who are in from Newfoundland visiting, we all took a road trip to Churchill Falls to tour the the 2nd largest underground power station in the world!
The massive transmission towers thatbring power all the way to New York!
Churchill Falls is a small isolated Northern town of 700 people just 3 hours east of Labrador City, Labrador where we live.
Living in Labrador most of my life and being to Churchill a few times on fishing trips, this the first time I went and did the tour of this amazing underground hydroelectric plant.
The underground roadwayHere are some quick facts on the falls thanks to Wikipedia.
Project facts
- Churchill Falls power plant is the second largest hydroelectric plant in North America, with an installed capacity of 5,428 MW (7,279,000 hp).
- Churchill Falls was, at the time of its construction, the largest underground power station in the world. (The Robert-Bourassa power station in Quebec currently holds the record, both for installed capacity and volume of the main underground hall).
Left to right: Me, my wife Kathy, my parentsand my cousin and her husband on the power house floor
- The powerhouse is 972 ft (296 m) long, up to 81 ft (25 m) wide and 154 ft (47 m) high from the bottom to the top. The height would be equivalent to a 15-storey building or almost as long as three Canadian football fields (990 ft (300 m) and is hollowed from solid granite. To strengthen walls and ceiling, more than 11,000 rock bolts (steel rods 15 to 25 ft (5 to 8 m) long) were used in the three major chambers.
- To move the 2,300,000 cu yd (1,760,000 m3) of rock that was excavated from the underground caverns, it required 5,000,000 lb (2,300,000 kg). This material was used in roads, building the town site, and as dike material.
The emergency bus with the keys in the ignitionin case of emergency, creepy...
- The turbine wheels are cast of stainless steel and weigh 80 short tons (73 t) which is a world record for the largest stainless steel casting ever made.
- During construction, 730,000 short tons (660,000 t) of material, equipment and fuel were moved to the site.
- The natural catchment area for the Churchill River covers over 23,300 sq mi (60,000 km2).By diverting the water from the Ossokmanuan Reservoir the total catchment area became 27,700 sq mi (72,000 km2).
- Total natural drop of the water starting at Ashuanipi Lake and ending at Lake Melvilleis 1,735 ft (529 m). As a comparison, the water starting 30 km (19 mi) upriver until it enters the power plant drops over 1,000 ft (300 m).
- There is no big dam associated with this hydropower plant. There are 88 dikes to contain the reservoir, the longest is 6.1 km (3.8 mi) and the highest is 36 m (120 ft).
- The total length of all dikes is 64 km (40 mi) and contains 26,000,000 cu yd (20,000,000 m3) of embankment material.
- After five years of non-stop field work by approximately 6,300 workers and costing $950,000,000 (1970) construction culminated on December 6, 1971 when the first two generating units began delivering power, five months and three weeks ahead of schedule.
- Currently Churchill Falls makes almost 1% of the world's hydroelectric power.Newfoundland and Labrador recently announced a call to develop the Lower Churchill Project.
- This is, in fact, a number of small projects which includes a 2,000 MW (2,700,000 hp) dam at Gull Island, an 824 MW (1,105,000 hp) dam at Muskrat Falls, 1,000 MW (1,300,000 hp) upgrade to the existing facility at the Churchill Falls power plant. This would increase the present power production capability by an extra 4,000 MW (5,400,000 hp) for a total of 9,252 MW (12,407,000 hp) for the entire Churchill River hydroelectric complex.
The refuge bunker that has supplies for
50 people for 35 daysin case of emergency!
Has never been used thankfully...
It was an amazing tour and made me realize that you don't have to go on a far-away vacation with your family to find some interesting sites that just might be in your back yard.
...Oh, and if my legs weren't so sore I would have forgot to show you my lower body workout!
Max Effort Lower Body
Rack Deadlifts, 1 max set of 3-5 reps
Barbell Lunges, 4 sets of 10 reps
Good Mornings, 4 sets of 10 reps
Grip Rollers, 3 sets of 3 rounds each
Sean Barker, CPT
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