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One Mile Creek Power Station
One Mile Creek Power Station is a former hydro-electric generating station in Queenstown, New Zealand. The power station was commissioned in 1924 to provide electric power for lighting in Queenstown. A re-inforced concrete arch dam was constructed in One Mile Creek to divert water into a penstock that supplied a pelton wheel turbine in a powerhouse constructed near to the shore of Lake Wakatipu. The station was officially opened on 18 September 1924[1] and operated until 1966 when it was decommissioned. The headworks of the scheme were subsequently used by the Queenstown Borough Council for water supply purposes.[2] A charitable trust was formed in 2002 to undertake restoration of the building and re-instatement of the generating equipment as a heritage project, and the work was completed in 2005.[2] The One Mile Creek Walk generally follows the steep route of the penstocks from the powerhouse up to the dam.[3] The walk passes through beech forest that is the closest area of native forest to Queenstown.[4] References Wikimedia Commons has media related to One Mile Creek Power Station.
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