Wabagishik

Worthington, Ontario

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Hydro & Dams

Mecan-Hydro designed and manufactured the Wabagishik spillway gates and supervised their installation for Vale in Worthington, Ontario, in 2021. The scope covered fixed wheel (roller) gates with embedded parts and heated guides, stoplogs, wire rope hoists, a monorail hoist with a follower beam, and the towers and bridges supporting the hoists. It formed part of the project to demolish the existing spillway and replace it with a new structure designed to last at least 75 years.

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Owner

Vale

Year

2021

Location

Worthington, Ontario

Type of work

Engineering, Manufacturing & Site Supervision

SCOPE OF SUPPLY

Designed for the new spillway, the fixed wheel (roller) gates feature upstream seals, with their embedded parts and guides. Heaters built into the guides keep the gates from freezing in their gains. Stoplogs with downstream seals, also supplied with embedded parts and guides, isolate the spillway gates for maintenance.

Fixed wire rope hoists operate the spillway gates. A monorail hoist and a follower beam handle the stoplogs used for gate maintenance at the spillway.

Housing on a steel superstructure support the wire rope hoists above the spillway, carrying the hoisting system of the new structure.

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