Gouin reservoir

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Reservoir Gouin / Barrage Gouin
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Location: Mauricie in Quebec (Canada)
Drain: Rivière Saint-Maurice
Réservoir Gouin / Barrage Gouin (Québec)
Reservoir Gouin / Barrage Gouin
Coordinates 48 ° 38 '1 "  N , 74 ° 54' 23"  W Coordinates: 48 ° 38 '1 "  N , 74 ° 54' 23"  W.
Data on the structure
Construction time: 1916-1918
Height of the barrier structure : 26 m
Crown length: 502 m
Power plant output: 0.6 MW
Operator: Hydro Quebec
Data on the reservoir
Altitude (at congestion destination ) 404  m
Water surface 1 302  km²
Reservoir length 102 km
Reservoir width 48 km
Storage space 8570 million m³

The Gouin Reservoir (French Réservoir Gouin , English Gouin Reservoir ) is a large reservoir in the Canadian province of Québec . It is roughly equidistant from Ottawa , Montréal and the city of Québec .

The reservoir is widely branched and has many islands, peninsulas and bays. The shoreline is more than 5600 km long, the average water depth is only 5.5 m. The water surface is about 1302 km² with normal damming. The Saint-Maurice river rises from the reservoir. It was named after Lomer Gouin , Prime Minister of Québec from 1905 to 1920.

The Barrage Gouin ( ⊙ ) has a height of 26 m and a length of 502 m. It was completed in 1918. At the reservoir there is a small hydroelectric power station with two turbines of 300  kW each . From 1918 the Shawinigan Water and Power Company used the reservoir to regulate the flow of water to the power plants further downstream. All plants have been operated by Hydro-Québec since 1963 .

The “La Loutre” dam, a gravity dam, located further down , is rather small at 16 m high. There are no paved roads to the reservoir, only forest roads and the possibility to get there by plane. The reservoir is very rich in fish and popular with anglers.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Commission de toponymie du Québec - Réservoir Gouin
  2. ^ Commission de toponymie du Québec - Barrage Gouin