Miller Creek Hydro Project

High in the Coast Mountains lays the source of Miller Creek's abundant water supply, the Ipsoot Glacier. Another run-of-river project nestled in the Sea to Sky Corridor, the Miller Creek hydro project, on a tributary of the Lillooet River, lies four kilometres north of Pemberton and produces 29 megawatts (MW) of power.

Owned by EPCOR Power Development Corporation and completed in May 2003, the facility includes water intakes on North and South Miller Creek at elevations of 1,100 metres and 1,200 metres. The water then travels through a 4.2-kilometre steel pressure pipeline linking to a 33-megawatt power station in the lower reach of the creek. Behind the three-metre high concrete dam and steel water-release gate is a two-hectare pond reservoir.

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Last Modified: Aug 8, 2011