'Dam' good work at Manitoba’s Wuskwatim Generating Station

Contractors fill a concrete hopper at the Wuskwatim Generating Station’s construction site. The $1.3 billion project is located about 45 kilometres southwest of Thompson Manitoba.

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Contractors fill a concrete hopper at the Wuskwatim Generating Station’s construction site. The $1.3 billion project is located about 45 kilometres southwest of Thompson Manitoba.

More than 110,000 cubic metres of concrete will be used in the dam project.

O’Connell-Neilson-EBC Partnership was awarded the general civil contract and work is expected to be completed in 2011. For more information about the generating station and other public works projects in western Canada, check out today's Public Works Feature