Page 4 BOUNDARY DAM POWER STATION 50TH ANNIVERSARY, MAY 12, 2010 sent down a southeast line Continued from page 3 to Oxbow. and Long Creek was put It was less than 18 into service, with a capacity years later when the Doof 850 kilowatts. The new minion plant was purchased plant, the records show, was by the provincial Saskatchsnakebitten. Suffering from ewan Power Commission. a lack of experience in han- That process took place dling automatic stokers that shortly after the end of the were burning lignite coal, Second World War. The the community was having sale was completed in 1946 a difficult time maintain- and plans were immediately ing its power plant, so in put in place for another big 1928 the Dominion Elec- expansion. A new building tric Company purchased it was constructed in 1947 for from the Town of Estevan the installation of a 5,000 and then built another unit kilowatt turbo-generator two miles down river from and an 80,000 pounds-perthe existing one. This plant hour steam boiler. was capable of producing In 1948 the new plant 2,750 kilowatts and the grid was put into service and a system was expanded to high voltage transmission serve the nearby communi- line was completed between ties of Taylorton, Bienfait Estevan and Yorkton and and Roche Percee. There the concept of producing was even a small amount power from larger regional of the production that was areas was introduced. The An exterior shot of the construction of Unit 4 at BDPS as it was taking place in circa 1969-70. Continued on page 5 (Photo courtesy SaskPower archives)
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2010
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