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 7-Mile Visitors
Can Now View
‘ Outdoor Work

Spring has banished winter
at the site of B.C, Hydro's
_Seven Mile dam project on the

Pend d'Oreille river near Trail,

and outdoor work has now re-

sumed.

Visitors to the tourist
lookout building will again see

: concrete being placed by cable-
~T> way in the final top sections of
je dam,

\' Over 92 per cent of the

‘ultimate 660,000 cubic yards of

concrete has now been placed in

‘the dam and spillway, Crews of

machinists will be busy for the
next several months installing
gate guides and gates which
will eventually contro! the flow
of water through the dam and

:powerhouse,

+ Most of the work carried

jout through the past winter

:was inside the powerhouse

building at the toe of the dam,

.~ >which was insulated and heated

-0 protect both the work force

‘and the large amount of equip-

++ “ment being installed.

“Although this winter was

‘very cold, work at the site con-

‘tinued on schedule during the

‘past few months,” said Ed

Quirk, Hydro's construction
manager at the site.
. _ Inside the powerhouse, in-

‘stallation work is proceeding

steadily on the first two-tur-
bines, the first generator and
the associated electrical and

-mechanical equipment.

The powerhouse has space
:for four turbogenerators with a
‘capacity of 202,600 kilowatts
each, Three are being installed
now, anda fourth may be added
at some future time.

The first two units are
scheduled for startup in the
spring of 1980, with the third
planned to go on line in the fall
of that year.

Filling of the reservoir
behind the dam is scheduled for
late this year. The Pend
dOreille river is now diverted
around the worksite through
an 840-foot-long, 60-foot-high
diversion tunnel, which will be
closed by lowering a steel gate
over the entrance. The tunnel
will later be blocked solidly by a

. Concrete plug.

Seven Mile will be a ‘run of

tithe river’ generating plant,

. with water supply controlled by

several other hydroelectric sta-
tions upstream in the United
States. The reservoir behind
the Seven Mile dam will have
an area of only 830 acres, of
which 430 acres are existing
river channel, and will stretch
upstream nine miles to the U.S.
border.

With the resumption of

7 coutdoor activity, the workforce
. at the project is rising to a total
of almost 700, and will peak
during the summer at around
750.

The majority are trades-
men from the area surrounding
the project site, most of whom

~.- developed their trade skills at
. previous B.C. Hydro projects.

Twins Raised
Apart, Still
Remain Similar

A team of medical and

psychological researchers be-

+ -gan an intense study recently of

identical twin brothers who

. grew up in separate homes but
“+ developed many similarities.

: Prof. Thomas Bouchard of

_ the University of Minnesota

psychology department said

the study may help explain

* what impact environment and

* ‘heredity have on human de-

” velopment.

i The 39-year-old twins,
“James Lewis and James Sprin-
~ ger, both from Ohio, are among

only 73 recorded cases of
- «identical twins raised apart.
The brothers were separated
weeks after birth and adopted
-by different families. They
were reunited recently.
Be Bouchard hurriedly organ-
.+ ized the team to examine the
twins for four days after
.” hearing of their reunion.
_ He said he moved quickly
after learning of them because
. “now that they have gotten
. together they are, in a sense,
contaminating one another.”
Springer is from Dayton,
Lewis from Lima. Although
- they grew up apart, both de-
veloped interests in law en-
forcement, carpentry and me-
+ chanical drawing,
~ ‘They both married and
divorced women named Linda
And vacationed on the same
Florida beach.
Relatives also say the six-
foot twins have similar speech
* spatterns, mannerisms and pos-
= ture.
Se Team members worked
hs around-the-clock preparing for
the twins’ arrival for testing.

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