Mott MacDonald appointed on US$27 million Jamaican hydro expansion scheme
Mott MacDonald has been appointed as designer and technical advisor by Kier Construction Ltd¹ for a US$27 million hydropower expansion project located on the Black River near the town of Maggotty in Jamaica. The expansion will double the 6.3MW power capacity of the scheme. The existing plant, which was constructed in the late 1950s, is made up of a weir and intake, 2.2km of 1.8m diameter woodstave pipeline, 100m of rock tunnel, a pipe bridge and surge tank, as well as an existing powerhouse with one vertical axis Francis turbine. The woodstave pipeline is in need of repair and