Cascade Creek Hydro Project - By Doug Linn
As you will recall, I accidently made a location called Swan Lake. When making it, I thought I was on Ruth Lake ... but alas I was wrong. So we went ahead and made a Ruth Lake. But in the meantime, since Swan Lake was not real or even "proposed" as real, I took it down. Then, a funny thing happened when i opened my email. Thomas found the "Cascade Creek Hydro Project" ... Cascade Creek is the creek coming out of Swan Lake! So there "is" a project on that lake. But there is no major dam, it is a "lake tap" where they build a tunnel from the bottom of the lake down to the power plant.
So now you have Cascade Creek Hydro in the downloadable zip at the web page. If you had the old Swan Lake, you must get rid of it or you will have some "not so pretty' problems. Another thing to keep in mind. Thomas is working on another Swan Lake ... but this one down near Ketchikan. So don't get mixed up by all the "swans". Right now, if you have my old Swan Lake ... get rid of it. (It is no longer on the site).
Cascade Creek, like many of these posed its own challenges. The terrain is not the same as in the real world, so we have to "build around" a lot of what ORBX gives us. The "doc" that comes Cascade Creek is the original project plan document for the project. You will see from the pictures and maps, we are "close" but not perfect. This one has float plane docks up at the lake and down and the barge off-loading area. It also has two helipads. Both helipads are going to be a challenge ... tight landing zones and not obvious because of all the trees. (Again, we were trying to duplicate the pictures). But I'm sure folks will have fun with this one too. It is "in" the latest zip file at the web page.
Doug