Dam controlled whitewater

[Christopher Ball]

I am working on a film which may be needing  a section of whitewater river with some ability to have control or predictability

I remember years ago, like maybe 20 years ago, we had a whitewater meet somewhere down the eastern shore.  It was a section that was dam controlled and they were able to open the dam for us.   Doesn anyone recall that, and which river it was?   I am thinking musquodoboit but not sure

Christopher

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[Allan Billard]

I don’t remember the event, but it sounds like a section of the East River, Sheet Harbour. 

Allan B

On Sep 13, 2024, at 1:10 PM, Christopher Ball <cbif...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[Dusan Soudek]

Hello Christopher,

    Allan is correct, it was the one and only East River Whitewater Festival on the East River Sheet Harbour, held mostly below the Marshall Falls dam, on June 1 - 3, 2001. Things have changed greatly since then. Nova Scotia Power has been privatized, with a different corporate culture. 

    And the Marshall Falls dam is now controlled remotely, so that you can no longer chat with the guy at the dam and make an arrangement for a few buckets of water. They  own and operate almost all of the active hydro dams in the province. I don't have any contacts there any more, but it is worth trying.

    Minas Basin Pulp & Paper also operates hydro dams in the province..

Dusan

[David Ripley]

It was the east river, sheet harbour. The dam is a couple of km upstream from the village. There is another spot just north of the dam called 12 mile stream I think, with a nice little drop.

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[Mike]

Don’t they do dam releases to drain Gaspereau and Black River Lakes for the winter?  It seems to me that they drop both by about a foot in early fall.

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