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operations, Calgary Power relied upon estimates of the river's minimum flow during winter conditions. Thus, despite the amount of energy the company had contracted, it could not reliably fulfill these obligations during winters. With capital already invested in
Horseshoe, Calgary Power opened another hydroelectric plant and reservoir two years later at Kananaskis Falls just upstream from Horseshoe Falls. A storage reservoir was also created within
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importantly, the image of Banff. There was also fear that continued reliance on the Bow as a natural sewer would either cap the development of Banff or eventually have great risk to public health. By the 1960s, the town built a modern sewage facility and stopped releasing untreated waters into the Bow. The river's aesthetic qualities had increasing priority in terms of effects of development within the borders of a
National Park.
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generation during fall and winter. Comparing 1924–33 to 1954–63, the Bow River's
January flow had approximately doubled 30 years later. Parts of the river, such as that preceding Ghost Dam, had practically turned into lakes. These developments had ecological effects, too. For example, reservoirs allowed certain fish species, such as the
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Banff, realized this element. When work began on a new luxury hotel in Banff in 1886–87, Van Horne personally redesigned and reoriented the plans so that the guests of the hotel would be able to see the vista of the Bow River. Many early postcards from Banff, as well as some current ones, prominently featured the Bow River.
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Calgary, began construction of the Bow River Weir paddle around, named the Harvie Passage. The passage allowed for the wave to be dispersed over a set of several smaller rapids while still supplying water to its irrigation district. Altogether, the paddle around cost $ 18 million and
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Quality Council's reports over time. By 1994, the reports emphasized the importance of the Bow's ecological balance as a whole for maintaining its water quality and quantity. In the mid-1990s, the upper Bow River began
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began to focus on the economic benefits of accessible, mass marketable tourism. Changes included new highways and the creation of storage reservoirs for the water needed to sustain the burgeoning community. The Bow River was now seen both for its aesthetic qualities and for new utilitarian aspects.
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Park advocates defined the Bow River within
Calgary as the city's nature: it was something to be protected for and enjoyed by the public. However, as progress was made in the parks' creation, this "environmental" view of the Bow's nature proved selective. For example, trees were not to be cut down,
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and the city began negotiating a CPR reroute that would follow the south bank of the Bow River, turning it into a parkway and the CPR's rail mainline. Among the plan's critics was the Local
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Calgary was an issue of the past. Water was held by reservoirs during spring and summer, permitting steady power
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First Nations used the river's valleys for the buffalo hunt, in which herds of buffalo were driven over cliffs or into valleys where they could be killed more easily with bows and arrows. Of all the First Nations groups that lived in the Bow River area, only the Nakoda fished the river regularly.
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began to be discharged into the Bow River. Because of the self-purification powers of the cold, braided water, however, the Bow was incredibly effective as a natural sewage-treatment facility. Tourists and residents were often unaware of the transformation of the Bow River into a sewage system.
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established a partnership to create additional wildlife habitat within the Eastern Irrigation District's boundaries. This demonstrated the EID's goal of encouraging wildlife in order to contribute to the growth of its tourist sector. Hunting and fishing are now promoted on the EID's website.
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Calgary Power had problems before this dam was completed in 1911. The Bow River originates from a northern mountain, and its flow varies considerably depending upon the amount and location of winter snowfalls. A comprehensive study of the Bow's flow measurements had not been conducted. In its
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As Banff continued to grow, the river continued to digest the increased volume of sewage. This practice, however, began to touch an ideological nerve among the tourists and residents of Banff. Pouring raw sewage into one of the main attractions of the park polluted both the river and, more
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on 22 September 1877, ceding lands in exchange for defined reserves. From the perspective of the Canadian government, these groups had surrendered all their land privileges outside their reserves. The reserves of the Nakoda, Tsuu Tʼina, and Siksika were established along the Bow River.
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pre-World War II elitist ideology of conservationist production, this emergent approach in North America was of grassroots consumers democratically engaging in environmental issues, and there was often tension between the public and managers of the environment.
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and Bow Waters Canoe Club, expressed concern for the river's environment. Their attitudes were not strictly human-centric, but, like those favoring a park system in Calgary, they defined the Bow River's environment as something worth preserving for human use.
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down the Bow River are such popular summer activities, there had been many fatalities. Furthermore, because fish were not able to pass through the structure, they too became trapped in the circulating wave and a dense, unnatural concentration of
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in order to decrease contamination, spillage, and loss of water to evaporation. A drawback of this change is that trees must be cleared in order to prevent roots from damaging the pipeline, changing the habitat.
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kilometres (160 mi) downstream. Its discovery caused alarm in the media and amongst those living along the Bow River (two years earlier, 70 percent of Calgarians reported using the Bow recreationally).
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conservationism, bureaucrats allowing the construction of the Minnewanka reservoir espoused that the nation's development as a whole superseded the need to protect a small part of Banff National Park's nature.
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basins. The government also requested that the three irrigation districts increase their efficiency by 30 percent. The irrigation districts are improving their irrigation system by changing most
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agreed to the idea in 1955, but by 1959 little progress had been made to fund the project. To accommodate increasing traffic flow through the growing city, the
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industrial demand increased pressure on the river: another hydroelectric development was built within Banff National Park, this time on the
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2774:. Harvie Passage: Calgary Bow River Project
2752:. Harvie Passage: Calgary Bow River Project
2363:"Episode Four: Eastern Irrigation District"
1412:Calgary was hit with an epic 100 year flood
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908:, an expanded Ghost Dam or a new dam near
452:. The outflow from this source flows into
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2700:. The Town of Chestermere. Archived from
2595:"Episode Nine: Irrigation and Recreation"
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2427:. University of Alberta. Archived from
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2228:. TransAlta Corporation. Archived from
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1378:Calgary's weir project (Harvie Passage)
527:are on the river's course, near Banff.
286:26,200 km (10,100 sq mi)
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2597:. Alberta Water Portal. Archived from
2484:. Alberta Water Portal. Archived from
2365:. Alberta Water Portal. Archived from
2292:from the original on January 25, 2021.
1921:"How Did Calgary Get Its River Parks?"
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2624:. Government of Alberta. p. 137.
1407:was completed in the spring of 2012.
1343:Recreation and industrial development
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2868:. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
2507:The Bow River Irrigation District.
2099:Alberta Formed, Alberta Transformed
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3361:Calgary International Airport
3285:List of schools and libraries
2987:. Toronto: Key Porter Books.
2934:Myers, Sean (July 11, 2016).
2698:"The History of Chesteremere"
2666:Eastern Irrigation District.
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2983:The Bow: Living with a River
2112:MacGregor, James G. (1972).
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1919:Nelles, H. V. (Fall 2005).
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2938:. University of Calgary
2152:. TransAlta Corporation
2130:. TransAlta Corporation
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2562:"BRID votes to expand"
2541:. Alberta Water Portal
2425:Atlas of Alberta Lakes
2076:Stenson, Fred (1994).
2062:April 4, 2007, at the
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2226:"Plants in Operation"
1883:"About the Bow River"
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3120:1988 Winter Olympics
2566:The Vauxhall Advance
2462:on December 28, 2011
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2114:A History of Alberta
2078:The Story of Calgary
1928:Urban History Review
1811:above the Bow River.
1562:Foothills and plains
976:Horseshoe Falls Dam
745:Calgary City Council
567:, consisting of the
545:Hudson's Bay Company
254:49.92833; -111.68667
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57:Map of the Bow River
19:For other uses, see
3951:Banff National Park
2232:on February 3, 2010
1636:Jumpingpound Creek
1574:Three Sisters Creek
1453:Banff National Park
1273:The Bow River near
1187:Strathmore, Alberta
1081:Bearspaw Reservoir
937:Year of completion
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847:Banff National Park
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3074:Notable Calgarians
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1794:Lac des Arcs
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1711:Lac des Arcs
1709:, Gap Lake,
1693:Many lakes,
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1664:W.I.D. Canal
1607:Joshua Creek
1593:Exshaw Creek
1590:Grotto Creek
1584:Pigeon Creek
1571:Cougar Creek
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1528:Healy Creek
1525:Ranger Creek
1498:Taylor Creek
1488:Baker Creek
1482:Corral Creek
1466:Missing Lake
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352:Oldman River
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3578:Bridal Veil
3423:Hydrography
3202:Skyscrapers
3166:Elbow River
2821:Global News
2672:Information
2641:Information
2268:Calgary Sun
2128:"Horseshoe"
1749:Bow Glacier
1703:Hector Lake
1654:Nose Creek
1650:Elbow River
1633:Horse Creek
1617:Ghost River
1613:Jacob Creek
1596:Heart Creek
1580:Wind Creek
1545:Spray River
1441:Tributaries
1364:Chestermere
1287:brown trout
1151:Irrigation
1128:Irrigation
1106:Irrigation
1036:Ghost Lake
999:Morley Dam
804:2013 floods
785:Ralph Klein
720:brown trout
697:Spray River
664:in 1912 at
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603:(later the
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494:Grassy Lake
462:Lake Louise
446:Bow Glacier
392:. The name
372:Elbow River
252: /
240:111°41′12″W
189: /
177:116°25′12″W
3935:Categories
3895:(wetlands)
3784:Minnewanka
3769:Kananaskis
3741:Reservoirs
3636:Beaverhill
3560:Waterfalls
3493:Little Bow
3468:Clearwater
2915:. CBC News
2897:August 10,
2668:"Wildlife"
2394:Recreation
1867:References
1824:Ghost Lake
1715:Ghost Lake
1667:Pine Creek
1599:Jura Creek
1310:watercraft
1265:Recreation
1078:TransAlta
1033:TransAlta
1021:Ghost Dam
988:TransAlta
866:Bow Valley
779:in Calgary
563:, and the
561:Tsuu Tʼina
502:Hudson Bay
474:Ghost Lake
411:irrigation
364:Hudson Bay
283:Basin size
237:49°55′42″N
174:51°39′03″N
3941:Bow River
3822:Athabasca
3804:Gleniffer
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3814:Glaciers
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3696:Miquelon
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2651:April 7,
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1392:kayaking
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