Electrical news and engineering . oint of conservation and ul-timate economy, the ideal Niagara development would beone that would utilize the whole of the future available wat-er under the gross head of 32T ft. existing between LakeErie and Lake Ontario. Several schemes, approximatingthis ideal in varying degree had been advanced durin,g thelast 20 years, the most practicable and promising of whichwas known as the Jordan-Erie scheme. This involved theintaking of water near Morgans Point on Lake Erie, thebuilding of an open waterway across the Niagara Peninsulato the brink of the escarpment ab
Electrical news and engineering . oint of conservation and ul-timate economy, the ideal Niagara development would beone that would utilize the whole of the future available wat-er under the gross head of 32T ft. existing between LakeErie and Lake Ontario. Several schemes, approximatingthis ideal in varying degree had been advanced durin,g thelast 20 years, the most practicable and promising of whichwas known as the Jordan-Erie scheme. This involved theintaking of water near Morgans Point on Lake Erie, thebuilding of an open waterway across the Niagara Peninsulato the brink of the escarpment above Jordan Harbour, thenc*carrying the water to the power-house at Lake Ontario levelthrough a mile of pipe. Studied from an engineering stand-point, this scheme was open to serious objection for threemain reasons, first, the unavoidable intake conditionsat Lake Erie; second, the structural difficulties andunavoidable head loss in connection with the 34-miIe canal; •Harry G. Acres. Chief Hydraulic Engineer. Hydro-Electric Power. This map show? the relative posi-tions and lengths of the and the Chippawa-Queenstoncanals. 30 THE ELECTRICAL NEWS and the thinl the regulation difficulties- attendant upon thecontrol of a mile long water column in the penstock con-nection between the head of the canal and the power-house,where something over 16 feet of penstock would be necessaryfor each foot of efifective The economic effective headfor this scheme worked out slightly less than 300 feet, thebulk of the losses being, of course, taken up in the long The problem was, therefore, to hnd easible loc- lems, it remained to determine whether or not it was feasibleto construct a suitable waterway between the Chipawa in-take and the power-house location above Queenston. Anexhaustive series of surveys and core-drill borings establish-ed the fact that it would be entirely feasible to connect thesetwo points by either the open canal or the pressure tunneltype of waterway. The
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