Taum Sauk II

The following is from a letter FERC sent to Ameren on September 28.

We have received and reviewed the above referenced submittal for the RCC test
pad program. As part of the on-site, full-scale, RCC test pad program, an aggregate
crushing plant was to have been mobilized to the site. You are proposing to utilize an
off-site location for crushing rock material from the existing embankment, and then
mixing the aggregate, cement, and flyash in a pugmill mixing plant which will be erected
on-site. In the interest of maintaining the existing aggressive schedule for the project, we
have no objections to the plan. Please obtain and provide the BOC's concurrence with
the proposal.

As I read this Ameren is going to "pour" a test wall (pad) of the new dam design. They are using rock from the old dam as aggregate for the concrete mix. I was very interested in the use of the phrase "existing aggressive schedule" in this quote.

Every time we drive to Farmington there are trucks with low boy trailers hauling heavy equipment towards Lesterville. I can only think of one place that they might be going.