The Wilson Dam was built in the early 20th century. It generates over 600 megawatts of electricity. The government needed gunpowder for the war, so they built this dam, the attached power house and two plants for producing nitrates. WW1 ended, and the need for gunpowder went away, so the plants were converted to making fertilizer.
When WW2 came along, they went back to making gunpowder, and after that they went back to making fertilizer again.
There is still a fertilizer factory there, though it seems to be much reduced in scale.
I was reminded of this by the similarity to the Norsk Hydro plant in
The Heavy Water War - hydro power being used to generate electricity which in turn is used to make fertilizer.
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