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Article: United States: Harnessing the Quequechan for hydroelectric power.
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- April 18, 2009
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Byline: prashant03
The restoration and "daylighting" of the Quequechan River is an integral part of Mayor Correia's Fall River Energy Enterprise initiative. A focal point of the plan involves constructing a hydroelectric generating plant at a new crescent shaped waterfall and dam near the center of the city along the Route 195 corridor.
In the 19th Century, the Quequechan's energy was the very reason Fall River became the textile capitol of the world. In the early part of the century direct water power using water wheels drove the mills' looms. After the invention of the Corliss steam engine in 1849, the city's mills gradually converted to steam power ...