Tees Barrage White Water course reopens with screw pumps and screw turbines.
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Tees Barrage White Water course reopens with screw pumps and screw turbines.
IT MIGHT not be the Colorado River – but for Teessiders seeking the thrill of white water rafting on their own doorstep it’s the next best thing.
The Tees Barrage International White Water Centre is now open to the public following its £4.6m revamp and installation of four screw pumps and screw turbines.
An extensive programme of improvements has created a world-class, Olympic standard facility at Stockton, and the UK’s first fully sustainable pumped white water course.
Senior GB team member and Olympic team hopeful Laura Blakeman, one of the world’s top canoeists and ambassador for the new course, joined other professional kayakers to test out the upgraded course in a competition event.
After using the course, Laura said it was “a brilliant asset” for Stockton and the North-east.
“Now we can boast a world-class training facility that will help us prepare for world-standard competition,” she said.
“We can also encourage international teams to base themselves at the Tees ahead of the London Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer.
“I think the course offers a real challenge to professional kayakers, as well as aspiring youngsters.”
The course is also used for emergency services training.
Unlike other white water courses around the world,
the Tees Barrage centre uses four Archimedes Screws, an invention created over 1,200 years ago, to generate the flow of the water as screw pumps.
Energy is also produced by the screw turbines which in turn powers a generator creating electricity to sell to the grid and fund the pumping operation.
This system means the centre – a joint venture by British Waterways, Stockton Council, One North East and Tees Active Ltd -
is the only sustainable screw pumped canoe course in the UK, and the only one in the world to exploit tidal fluctuations for power generation and course operation.
Steve Garcia, project manager at British Waterways, said: “The technical design and construction mean the course is now one of the best in the world. It offers a sporting challenge and is now a sustainable facility for the public to enjoy.”
Other key improvements include an upgraded deeper main channel, a new short course – one of the steepest in the UK – installation of a Rapidbloc system which allows paddlers to shape the waves and flows of the water and a new conveyor belt system.
Tees Barrage White Water course reopens with screw pumps and screw turbines.
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