Schoellkopf turbine relic exposed by low Niagara River level

Originally from the Falls now live in Panama City Florida, Remember taking a tour of the plant about a year before the collapse while I was in the Cub Scouts

I’m in Canada staying directly across from this it’s honestly so epic and I love seeing old pictures and then seeing what’s changed. If I had one super power I’d be greedy and want to be able to spend a week in each decade going back 1700s up Till 1990

Great capture, I highly appreciate this video from 2012. What was the reason for the low water level? Aside from the control dam, was there a reason they were limiting water flow during this time? I saw the opposite about 4 years ago when the river level was so high that it breached it's banks. Both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario were well above normal water levels and boardwalks along the shorelines were washed out. During this time of high water levels in the lakes, which happened twice in 3 consecutive summers while skipping a year in between, me and my friend made a trip to the falls. During the 2nd time that the lake levels were higher than normal we made a semi-routine trip to Niagara and hiked the gorge and up river beyond the Toronto Generating Station. Trees were growing out of the water and there were ponds all along the river. Several areas between the Rankine and Toronto generating stations have areas in the bushes where you can drop down to river level. But when the water level was high all these little areas were well below water. Like I said, trees were sticking out of the water. I wish I could have gotten video of the river that summer. The summer where the lake levels breached the shorelines for the 2nd time in 3 years. In Toronto the island was underwater as was most of Sunnyside and Humber/Humber Bay Park, and so were The Beaches between Leslie and Victoria Park. Even the Eastern-most parking lot of Ontario Place had standing lake water halfway up to Lakeshore Drive. It was a crazy sight to see the Niagara River during this time and regret not having video or pictures. Thank you for the upload, this is kind of an uncommon occurance and I haven't actually seen this before. I would like to see it in person one day, with low river levels like this.

the husband of the lady who drove our school bus in Lewistion,just down river,was the only one killed in the collapse.i would of been 10 years old at the time i did hear my parents talking about the stories going around on how the workers at the plant were trying to sandbag the leaking walls in the generator hall when it started to give way.

Pretty awesome! Added to our Nature Playlist. :)

Is that circulation caused by the penstock entrance?

Wondering if the girders shown later in the vid were from the Honeymoon Bridge collapse in the 1930s. My father cut HS classes in Rochester, NY, and drove out to see the collapse in person with some friends. In early 1967, I was climbing over the schoellkopf wreckage with some friends. Several of the holes from the penstocks remained. Looked like you could see all the way down to hell in there. No return if you fell in.

very cool...thanks!

Looking for the 8mm film of the actual collapse, i saw it when i was a kid. any ideas?