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![Prospect of Alvøen, Bergen](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_262-x.jpg?itok=LxWnEEWq)
Alvøen
Alvøen is one of the oldest industrial places in Norway. As early as the 1620s a gunpowder mill was built here. The place itself was well situated for industrial activity, lying only 100 m from the waterfall, which provided power for the mill, and a good harbour wherefrom the products were shipped. The success of the gun-powder mill varied in the 1600s and 1700s, but what made Alvøen best known was its paper production.
![Elm - and lime tree](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/mas_16.jpg?itok=QbVLmuCx)
![Sash-saw](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/1/kvh-375-stekka.jpg?itok=RgEApthy)
Berge
Down by the fjord on the farm Berge in Tørvikbygd, is Stekkavika – a sheltered eastward facing harbour, protected against the fjord by headlands and rocks, even manifest in the name. Here is also a comprehensive milieu of coastal industry, with boathouses and sea-sheds that belong to the farms Berge, Heradstveit and Halleråker. Belonging to the farm Berge there is also a mill-house, circular saw, workshop for sloop building, and – a little further up into the woods – the old water-powered sash-saw.
![Bjellandsvatnet (Bjørn Moe)](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/304/sveio-5_0.png?itok=3DF-lEbm)
Bjellandsvatnet
Lake Bjellandsvatnet is one of the richest wetland areas in Sveio. But, everything has its limit, and the supply of nutrients can be too much. This is what was about to happen in Lake Bjellandsvatnet.
![Bjørsvik](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/lindas_11_1.jpg?itok=vyYie0Yy)
Bjørsvik
The industrial settlement Bjørsvik
![A “chest piece” from Bu museum.](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_392-3.jpg?itok=OmJbReR9)
![Dale](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/kvh_333-1.jpg?itok=SzCDGA0j)
![Einstapevoll](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/sveio-11.jpg?itok=kzXzvNHZ)
Einstapevoll- slates
“On the country of Wallestrand…the rock almost everywhere appears to be of a slate-like substance, be it at the seashore, on the farms or in their distant fields”.
![Eio](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/eid_24.jpg?itok=YXGcEwC6)
![A silled lake at Ekse](https://www.grind.no/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/bilder/sted/232/vaksdal_23.jpg?itok=FFeLX3xo)
Eksingedalen- hydropower development
Water discharge at the outlet of the Ekso into Eidsfjord was halved after the big hydropower development in the mountainous area between Modalen and Eksingedalen and further southward toward Evanger in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. In an attempt to amend the changed environmental conditions in the waterway the developer built 35 small dams in the river.