The dam and the power plant were acquired by a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec from Great River Hydro, LLC, in October 2022.
Steam turbine power plants are not as easily "throttled" because of the amount of thermodynamic inertia contained in their systems.
On September 30, 1930, President Herbert Hoover remotely initiated the generation of electricity from Comerford Dam, then New England's largest single hydroelectric development.
[3] At the time of its construction, it was the largest "retaining wall" in the United States, representing more than 90,000 cubic yards (69,000 m3) of concrete.
The camp contained its own housing, commissary, theater (which substituted as a church on Sunday), and a hospital.