Muskrat Falls
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Muskrat Falls is a natural 15 meter waterfall located on the lower Churchill River just west of Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Labrador.
The hydro power potential of Muskrat Falls was recognized in the early 1900's when the Grand River Pulp and Lumber Company proposed to build a dam there along with a paper mill. Neither was every constructed. In the early 1970s an engineering and geotechnical survey was carried out to determine the hydro potential of the site. The site is still under review as a source of hydro power.
It is rumored that in 1944 the crew of German submarine had beached it at the falls when they decided to withdraw from World War II.
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