Muskrat Falls

Muskrat Falls was a natural 15-metre waterfall on Labrador’s Churchill River, west of Happy Valley–Goose Bay, and once stood out among the lower river’s notable falls. Its hydroelectric potential drew interest as early as the early 1900s, though initial dam and paper mill plans were never built. Surveys resumed in the early 1970s, and the site was later developed through the Lower Churchill Project. That development became controversial as researchers and local Inuit raised concerns about methylmercury poisoning. The falls also figured in local legend through a rumour of a stranded German submarine in 1944, later echoed by a 2010 sonar discovery widely regarded as uncertain.

Newfoundland and Labrador · Canada