{"id":2020,"date":"2019-09-11T03:52:31","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T01:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/?p=2020"},"modified":"2019-09-30T08:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T06:10:23","slug":"arctrain-summer-school-day-5-dam-it-lets-go-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/arctrain-summer-school-day-5-dam-it-lets-go-north\/","title":{"rendered":"ArcTrain Summer School – Day 5: Dam It… Let’s go North!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Group photo at the Daniel Jonson Dam (Manic-5). Credit: Damien Ringeisen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

This day we drove from Baie-Comeau to the Uapishka station, following the Manicouagan River upstream, straight towards the north. This river flows from the Reservoir Manicouagan towards Baie-Comeau, on a distance of 221 km, and is the 3rd most important tributary of the St. Lawrence. Four dams were built on the river, the biggest being Manic-5 (there is no Manic-4) which is located 214 km north of Baie-Comeau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Views over Manicouagan Lake. Credit: Qentin Duboc<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In total, the road was 336 km but the ride took 5h30, as it is not strait at all and made us feeling like in a roller-coaster! Some of us were even a bit sick, reminding some feelings we had on scientific cruises… Despite that, the ride was beautiful, as the lands are not flat at all and full of lakes and rivers. We crossed many trucks, most of them carrying logs downstream, as forestry is, with mining, the main industry in this region. At the beginning, we saw the dam Manic-2, then did a stop after 100 km to get a last coffee for a while, and arrived at Manic 5 for lunch. There, the impressive Daniel-Johnson dam, with its height of 214 meters, is the highest multiple-arch-and-buttress dam in the world. Its crest is 1314 meters long, and it contains 2.000.000 m3<\/sup> of concrete (enough to make a sidewalk from the North to the South Pole!). This hydroelectric infrastructure also includes two powerplants: Manic-5 and Manic-5-PA that generate a total power of 2.660 MW. And so, we followed not only the river, but also electric lines carrying electricity from the powerplants downstream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Life on the Road does strange things to you. Credit Quentin Duboc<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe dam, we had a 100 km of gravel-road, crossing dust-clouds behind\nthe trucks and roadworks preparing a better pavement. Once the dust\nclouds settled, we could enjoy the grand views over Manicouagan Lake.\nWe even spotted a porcupine and a Bald Eagle! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally,\nin the evening, we arrived at Station Uapishka, which is part of the\nManicouagan Uapishka Biosphere Reserve Center, and comanaged by them\nand the Innu communities. The recently finished station serves as a\nbasecamp for scientists and offers ecotourism activities such as\nhiking in the Mont Groulx or experiences onboard the traditional\nnative canoe called \u201crabaska\u201d. When we arrived, we were surprised\nby the comfort it offers to the visitors in the completely new wooden\nbuilding, with separated bedrooms, prepared meals and a fast Wi-Fi.\nAll these amenities are in contrast to the wild and remote landscape\nthat captured us right away. First order of business after arriving\nwas a short walk down to the Manicouagan Lake to soak in the views of\na phenomenal sunset. What a great way to end a long day of traveling\non the road! \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Written by Jens Weiser and Quentin Duboc<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This day we drove from Baie-Comeau to the Uapishka station, following the Manicouagan River upstream, straight towards the north. This river flows from the Reservoir Manicouagan towards Baie-Comeau, on a distance of 221 km, and is the 3rd most important tributary of the St. Lawrence. Four dams were built on the river, the biggest being […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.12.2","language":"en","enabled_languages":["en","de","fr","ru"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"fr":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false},"ru":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2025,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2020\/revisions\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2020"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arctrain.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}