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Some history of the Billings
Reservoir
. In 1896 William Mackenzie and
associates acquired in São Paulo the
In 1906 the Sao
Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company, built the Guarapiranga
Reservoir. In 1928 It started providing potable water for Sao Paulo;animal-Trams-line ("mules") and founded in Ontario - Canada the "Light" SPTL&P - (Sao Paulo Traction Light & Power) which later was named Brazilian Traction Light & Power The Guarapiranga Reservoir => http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarapiranga In 1912 the group founded the Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Company Ltd., (in Brazil called "Light"). In 1927, the area currently occupied by the Billings Dam was flooded through the construction of the "Pedreira"-Dam by the course of the Rio Grande, also called Jurubatuba River. The project was implemented by the former Light - "The São Paulo Tramway, Light and Power Company, Ltd.", nowadays "Eletropaulo", in order to harness the waters of the Upper Tietê for generating electricity at the hydroelectric power plant (HPP) Henry Borden in Cubatao, taking advantage of the Serra do Mar slope. After the "mules" finally the
electric Tram in São Paulo
The
Billings Resservoir is the largest freshwater reservoir in the
Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. It celebrated its 87 years in 2012. Was created to generate
energy at the Henry Borden plant in Cubatao (name given in honor of engineer Asa White Kenney
Billings, contracted by the Canadian company
Tramway Light & Power). http://www.novomilenio.inf.br/cubatao/ch007a.htm
Also
the
Billings may dry out in 40 years !
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