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Originally Posted by Alex Mackinnon
I don't think so.
As is, Metro Vancouver barely uses Coquitlam Lake. A large portion ends up in Burrard Inlet after going through the Buntzen Power Station, which doesn't make that much power.
Replace that power capacity with some solar, and wind turbines and you've got a lot more water for the city.
There is room to greatly increase the amount of water stored for summer use. Even just raising the Seymour Dam is a large increase in supply. Plenty of water is spilled in the spring because there is less storage capacity than the river system contains. Capilano also has excess water, but the dam would be harder to raise.
Fredinno, you make a lot of conclusive statements when you don't seem to really know much technical detail about the subject matter. That's not a great thing on this board because generally a lot of people on here have very specialised knowledge, and diluting that with a bunch of conclusive sounding hypotheticals is misleading and makes it harder to recognise the real body of the discussion. You should qualify more of your statements with probablys and maybes if you don't know for certain.
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This was a what if...
I'm thinking 100y level long term- technically we could close up Buntzen for overflow only and get a similar effect.- moving the facilities to Belcarra or Indian Arm.
I know there's storage capacity left over in the existing dams. I pretty much acknowledged that in the first post.
