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After the Schoellkopf Power Station No. 3 collapsed in 1956, the New York Power Authority oversaw construction of a new power plant in Lewiston, New York. Construction on the Niagara Power Project began in 1958 and was finished in 1962, and the first delivery of electricity from the new project occurred on February 10, 1961. Its most striking feature, the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant, measures 1,933 feet long, longer than five football fields, and at 389 feet high it is about 38 stories tall. When completed, the Robert Moses Niagara Power Plant was the largest in the Western world. The land later used to create Reservoir State Park was utilized as a construction staging area during development of the Niagara Power Project.
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