Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, Embankment, 6928 East Thirty-sixth Street, Newaygo, Newaygo County, MI
Summary
Significance: The 120'-high Embankment is part of the Hardy Hydroelectric Plant, built in the early 1930s as a link in Consumers Power Company's system of electric power generation. In designing and building Hardy, the company found a way to erect a stable, relatively high dam on Michigan's notoriously gravelly foundations, continuing its tradition of developing solutions to the problems presented by Michigan's geography and geology. The design process for the dam also appears to reflect a tendency in American civil engineering to favor regional practices of technology developed elsewhere.
Survey number: HAER MI-100-A
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Location
Newaygo, 43.41974, -85.80005
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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