Geography
The reservoir is located on the Labrador Plateau, a saucer shaped plateau that ranged from 457 to 579 m (1,499 to 1,900 ft) above sea level. Before construction it was inundated with many bogs and small interconnected lakes. The three largest of these lakes were the Ossokmanuan, the Lobstick and the Michikamau. The Ossokmanuan became a reservoir for the Twin Falls power station.
The area was mostly drained by the Churchill River. At the edge of the plateau it dropped 66 m (217 ft) before the falls, a further 75 m (246 ft) at the falls and a further 158 m (518 ft) through the Bowdoin Canyon. It was called the Bowdoin Canyon for Bowdoin College of Maine which sponsored an expedition in 1891 to visit the falls.
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