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In 1997, Montana Power repainted and renovated the tailrace Island bridge.
Most of this water is returned to the river further downstream via a tailrace canal.
Tailrace Island was jointly owned by the power company and the Boston and Montana.
Parallel to the powerhouse, a tailrace tunnel discharges the water to the river channel below.
A cofferdam was constructed for excavation of the tailrace and spillway channel, and subsequently removed.
From the head of the dam to the end of the tailrace was about a mile.
The tailrace empties through a 100 yard tunnel that rejoins the stream after running under the mill house.
Reconnaissance photographs of tailrace activity continued to indicate that two generators of the Sui-ho hydroelectric complex remained in operation.
Power came from another water wheel, constructed underground, and fed by the tailrace of the first wheel.
The tailrace would be excavated out of sound rock, and would be concrete or steel lined as necessary.
The tailrace outlet is located in the Babai River 20 km upstream of the existing Babai irrigation project diversion weir.
The HVDC transmission line crosses the Benmore power station tailrace and takes a route along the eastern side of the dam.
Eventually, Davy Hite prevailed in the tailrace , but the 2nd-, 3rd- and 5th-place finishers fished shallow.
Colin: “We used to sit the tins in the wheelbarrow and take them to the tailrace at the south end of the beach to empty.