News Flash -- Ted Chant finds correct Blueprints -- starts building tour boat

This reporter has learned that the Brilliant Expansion Project has been changed at the last moment due to a computer glitch that printed out the wrong design plans. The artist's concept shown here reflects the new design of The Brilliant Excursion Project. The powerhouse will be still completed as drawn, but the rebar will be cut away at the gate guides and scroll case base and then the entire structure will be floated away from the tailrace launching dock. A paddle wheel generator will be installed to supply sufficient electricity to power the tour boat. When the Keenleyside dam is removed (deconstruction starts in November) for the first time in 86 years a flat bottom stern wheeler will travel the Arrow Lakes from the TransCanada highway to within a Trudeau salute of the American border. No sturgeon were harmed in the redesign.

For more information contact Wally Penner, Executive Director, Community and Regional Affairs at the Castlegar Columbia Power Corporation office 250-365-8532