Moore Dam, New Hampshire

The Moore Dam is on the Connecticut River, which is also the border between New Hampshire, and Vermont. It has the largest hydroelectric plant on any river in New England (generating up to 192 megawatts), and is the largest of a string of dams and reservoirs along the upper part of the river. The dam was completed 1956, for flood control and energy production, and required the removal of Pattenville, New Hampshire, and Upper Waterford, Vermont, townsites now under the waters of the reservoir. Because of fluctuations of water level, the shores of the reservoir are mostly undeveloped. In 2005 the dam’s bankrupt owner, USGen, was purchased by the TransCanada Corporation, a Canadian energy company mostly involved in gas and oil transmission (it was established in 1951 to build Canada’s natural gas mainline, bringing gas from the west, to cities in the east, and it is the main company behind the controversial Keystone XL pipeline).