Well Stave Lake is certainly interesting. It's a man made lake created by a dam to generate power. Right after the dam a second man made lake is formed, Hayward lake created by a second dam.
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Alouette lake right beside Stave lake is also made by a dam but is a slightly higher elevation. So here's the deal. They build a tunnel from Alouette lake to Stave lake and have the water pass through turbines to generate electricity. Then the water from Stave lake passes through another set of turbines to generate electricity and then it finally passes through a third set of turbines to generate electricity at Hayward lake.
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This was all built a long time ago and is a great example of ecofriendly power. Yes it screws up salmon runs and I don't see any fish hatchery like at Capilano dam. That hatchery is very effective but the salmon there aren't very large. Must be because of the really vigorous water they have to fight their way up. The Salon river in Langley is much easier for the Salmon to swim up and they are huge. You can see them count them at the fish trap.
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I find the tunnel from Alouette lake to Stave lake very interesting. They have the same thing from Buntzen lake to the Indian arm. The outlet in the Indian Arm looks like it's 100 years old. It look abandoned with broken windows but I'm told it still lets water out on occasion. I think they have another tunnel from another lake going to Buntzen lake but it's in a different district and they don't like to release their water. Hence the volume is down.
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The one draw back to a man made lake is these spooky stumps everywhere. However, there are other parts of the lake that are very nice with no stumps. I saw a black ferret hopping in and out of logs when I docked for lunch. I never new we had ferrets here.
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Stave lake is also home to the world famous mud flats where 4 wheel drive truck play in the mud along with dirt bikes and quads. It's a pretty unique place. Fire pits and beer cans everywhere. I saw a pretty incredible pulls on Youtube someone did to get another vehicle out of a big mud hole it was stuck in. I thought they were gonna pull their bumpers right off: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko-1B7lUvtA
Then there's other one just showing how they roll inn the mud flats at Stave lake: www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3nHxU-TfUE
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Wayward lake is actually Hayward lake.
My bad. Cheers.
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